SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Differential Association, Social Control, Informal Social Control
Document Summary
Why don"t all people engage in deviance: structural-functionalist: social control. Deviance is normal and socially functional: social reaction to deviance increases social solidarity: people in all communities consider suicide. Those in communities with efficient social control decide against it. Social construction of deviance: actions are not inherently deviant. They are defined as such by those with power to label others: definitions of deviance vary across time and space , murder-war-infanticide(murder of small child) Homosexuality (v. laud humphreys, george michael, little sisters book and art. Emporium: claims making , publicizing the problematic behavior of others (defining behavior as deviant, shaping a particular view of the problem (e. g. criminal or medical, building consensus around new moral categories (who is to blame?, moral entrepreneurs. Conflict theory of deviance: explains social construction of deviance, conservative: various social groups make claims about deviance in pursuit of their interests.
