Critically explore the extent that normalization theory can explain recent trends in recreational drug taking.
Description
400 words on introduction, minimum 35 references for whole essay.
Introduction-
Understanding of question
Few sentences on each point
Name of key Theorists
State the conclusion
1. Explain recreational drugs
2. Use official statistics to show trends in recreational drug use
3.Explain Parker’s theory of normalization and compare it to Becker’s theory of social deviance
4. Compare this to the social construction of deviance in relation to drugs.
5. Evaluate whether normalization has actually happened
-In what way has normalization occured?
-Why may it not have occured?
Conclusion:
-Summary of essay in order/ what was already explained
-nothing new
