SOCI-100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Juvenile Delinquency, General Social Survey, Restorative Justice
Document Summary
Only these sections + lectures will be on the final plus 9&10. Bottom of 293-299, wide spread and moral panic, disasters (295) Chapter overview: social control, deviance, crime, theorizing deviance, theorizing our perceptions of and reactions to deviance. We are all participants in social control, which is directed at unacceptable (deviant) acts. They go against the norms of what is appropriate. Social control: actions intended to prevent, correct, punish, fix , or cure people, behaviours, and characteristics that are perceived as unacceptable. (abc"s of deviance) I have expectations that are made by my mom to have stayed home friday night and study because of finals coming up. She expected me to study this morning because i came to school early. You wait in line at tim hortons, you don"t go behind the counter to get your order. I didn"t drink all week because i had home work (informal) Directed at others or directed at ourselves.