SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Labeling Theory, Michel Foucault, Travis Hirschi

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Mary- Anne Kandrack

Document Summary

Deviance: behaviour that fails to conform to societal norms and thereby poses a threat to social order. Social structure: any enduring, predictable pattern of social relations among people in society. Social control: the institutions and other mechanisms that promote conformity. Informal penalties like stigmatization, ridicule, or exclusion (negative sanctions) Norms: rules or expectations that serve as guidelines for behaviour in everyday life. Folkways: norms based on popular habits and traditions. Mores: norms that carry moral significance, and contribute to the general welfare of a group. Taboos: powerful social beliefs about the wrongness or repulsiveness of certain behaviours. Norms, folkways, mores, and taboos are upheld by sanctions, social gestures that may be either positive (rewarding behaviour) or negative (punishing behaviour). Moral panic: social concern, bordering on overreaction, about certain deviant behaviours that are fairly trivial in nature or frequency (cohen, may be stoked by a moral entrepreneur, someone who has an interest in arousing concern about the behaviour.