SOC 101 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
Document Summary
They vary over time, by context, and by location examples: sodomy (same sex sexual activity) was illegal in some states until 2003 when the supreme court ruled that these laws were unconstitutional in most cases, murder is illegal. Theories of how deviance and crime are de ned: How deviance and crime are confronted by society: social control the mechanisms that create social compliance in individuals. Informal social sanctions the usually unexpressed but widely known rules of group membership the unspoken rules of social life enforced by everyone in society. Formal social sanctions: mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior enforced by formally assigned social agents (law enforcement, administrators, the government) Innovator: selling drugs to support your family: ritualist: rejecting marriage and children but still dating and pursuing relationships, retreatist: a recluse living off the grid , rebel: a terrorist. Alternative theories for deviance and crime: biology (lobroso)
