CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Hester Prynne, Google Answers, Ritualism In The Church Of England
6 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Groups, Networks, and Institutions
Examples in Higher Education?
● More students in online school
● More money
● More students with tight schedules
● Not employing as many faculty full-time
● Are students committed?
● How to design class for students not to google answers
Faculty Acceptance of Online Education
● ⅔ of community college presidents think online school is good
● Loss of revenue from students not living on campus
● Elitism
Scrutinizing Higher Education as an Institution
● Aid based on merit rather than need
Deviance and Social Control
Four Key Principles
● Deviance is necessary for social order
○ Maintenance of norms requires deviant behavior
● Deviance is not an individual act, but often reflects strains in society at large
○ Sometimes mass shootings target certain groups
● Societal response to deviance is highly selective, and reflects class and racial biases
○ Everyone has engaged in some deviant behavior but not labeled
● Behaviors we now regard as deviant were not seen as such in prior decades (and vice
versa)
Functionalist Perspectives
Durkheim’s Suicide
Robert Merton
● Developed social strain
○ Conformity (goals and means)
○ Innovation (goals not means)
○ Ritualism (means not goals)
○ Retreatism (neither means nor goals)
○ Rebel (ANARCHY)
Exam Prep: Applying Functionalist Perspectives to Understand Deviance
● Hester Prynne and the scarlet letter
● Wearing A reaffirms that adultery is bad
○ Violates norm of loyalty of marriage
Symbolic Interactionist Approaches
Document Summary
How to design class for students not to google answers. Of community college presidents think online school is good. Loss of revenue from students not living on campus. Aid based on merit rather than need. Deviance is not an individual act, but often reflects strains in society at large. Societal response to deviance is highly selective, and reflects class and racial biases. Everyone has engaged in some deviant behavior but not labeled. Behaviors we now regard as deviant were not seen as such in prior decades (and vice versa) Exam prep: applying functionalist perspectives to understand deviance. Wearing a reaffirms that adultery is bad. Recall that whereas functionalist look macro sym-ins look micro. Prompts them to examine beliefs and assumptions people bring to their everyday interactions to find the causes or explanations for deviance. People see how they are labeled and accept the label as true". People behave the way they think someone with their label should behave.
