SOCPSY 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Control, Social Forces, Charismatic Authority

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2D03
• Professor: Luca Berardi

Document Summary

Social control, deviance and disorder lecture 1 regimes and social control 3c03 sept 11. All those mechanisms and resources by which members of society attempt to assure the norm-conforming behaviours of others. Early scholars of social control: edward a ross, emile durkheim, max weber. Social control published in american journal of sociology. Didn"t create the theory out of thin air. Examined the relationships between the ind and society. Social forces create patterns of association between members of society: glue that holds us together. Human beings were independent and violent lives and over time we are more thoughtful and social beings. Concerned with individualism and its impact on social order and control. Major part of human history, the group reigned supreme over the ind: more group than being individual, but that has changed. In modern society the ind reigns supreme over the group: now more individual people not groups.