SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Social Control Theory, Joe Arpaio, Heterosexism
Document Summary
Deviance is a non-compliance with social norms that provokes a negative social reaction, and an attempt to control behavior and/or punish the perpetrator. Objective and subjective concepts of deviance: moral status accorded thoughts, actions, characteristics, and persons. Social diversions: harmless non-compliance to social norms; it does not elicit sanction ( fads ) Social deviations: non-compliance to social norms that elicits an informal sanction. Conflict crimes: non-compliance to law; members of society disagree about its seriousness and the appropriate sanction. Consensus crimes: most members of society agree on their seriousness. Structural-functionalist theories: strain, cultural support, differential association. Post-modernist: discourse as means of social control normalized by the powerful; minority views are unheard. Lack of fit between the accepted cultural goals and socially acceptable means available to achieve these goals. This strain creates four types of coping strategies: innovation (crime), ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. Critique: fails to account for middle class and upper class crime and deviance.
