Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Control Theory, Travis Hirschi, Class Discrimination
1 Apr 2016
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The in-class essay outline will be posted on owl and we will talk about it in discussion next week. Review: sigma (you will be using 1 or any combinaion of the following sigma in your essay: abominaion of the body, blemishes of character, tribal sigma. How people with physical abnormaliies manage the presentaion of self to allow for some form of reasonably normal interacion (how people with physical abnormaliies get by in the world) Braithwaite: we"ve been using the wrong kind of shaming in western socieies: we should switch from disintegrative (sigmaizing) shaming pracices to. Maybe disintegraive shaming can explain the high rates of recidivism in deviant behaviour. There are roots of classical theory, social control, and neutralizaion theory. It is transformed with social control theories to: why don"t more people do it? . Deviance is alluring and exciing, and an easy route to goal atainment.
