CAS SO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sisal, Informal Social Control, Bsc Young Boys
Document Summary
In his book, rios examines the way the current aggressive policing strategies have effectively criminalized young boys in poor neighborhoods. Social deviance can be taken to mean any transgression of socially established forms. Minor violations are acts of informal deviance, such as picking your nose. At the other end of the continuum, we have formal deviance, or crime, which is the violation of laws enacted by society. Because social norms and rules are subject to change, the de nitions of what counts as deviance are likely to vary across contexts. Persons and behaviors have been variously called deviant depending on what culture and historical period they happen to fall in. Change in laws signals the shifting social values, such as increased tolerance of sexual and racial diversity. Deviance is a broad concept covering everything from answering your cell phone during lecture to murder.
