SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Actions, Medicalization, Deterrence Theory
Document Summary
Anti-mesgenation law: having sex or marrying a person from another race is illegal (virginia. Absolutism: an approach to defining deviance that rest pn the assumption that all human behavior can be considered either inherently good/bad. Relativism: states that deviance is not inherent is any particular act,belief/condition:instead it is socially constructed, a creation of collective human judgements and ideas (1) created by society (2) has the possibility to change. Criminalization: making an action crime ,punsiable by law. Formal social control: when social actions are regulated with rewards and punishments by organizations most notably by gov"t laws. Informal social control: when social actions are regulated with rewards and punishments by everyday action. Social reality crime-violation of criminal laws (local state federal) social perception. Deterrence theory: theory of deviance positing that people will be prevented from engaging in a deviant ac if they judge the costs of such an act to out weight its benefits.
