SOCI 1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White-Collar Crime, Anomie, Mind Control
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Subculture: a sub-group that does not challenge mainstream society. Counterculture: a sub-group that does challenge mainstream society. Deviance: ways of thinking and acting that are subject to social control. Social control: the ways in which members of social groups express their disapproval of people and behaviour. This helps sociologists avoid certain problems as they look at the issue of deviance. Criminals, child-molesters, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, chronic liars, members of (cid:396)eligious (cid:272)ults . Notice that this requires the researcher to make a value judgement. In other-words, the labelling of these as deviant is subjective. Subjective labelling attributes a moral stance to the observed behaviour. Statistically: a deviant behaviour is a behaviour which is uncommon. The study of deviance should not just (cid:271)e a(cid:271)out t(cid:396)(cid:455)i(cid:374)g to (cid:862)fi(cid:454)(cid:863) (cid:862)de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)ts(cid:863), (cid:271)ut (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)h(cid:455) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) e(cid:454)(cid:272)ludes a(cid:374)d dis(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:373)i(cid:374)ates (cid:271)(cid:455) defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374) people as (cid:862)de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t(cid:863)
