SOC100 Study Guide - Embezzlement, Anomie, Arms Trafficking

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Alison Dunwoody

Document Summary

Responding to deviance deviance is subject to social control actions (i. e. , sanctions) that are intended to punish, fix, or prevent deviant behavior formal e. g. , being arrested and prosecuted for a drug offence (cid:224) depends on who"s exerting the control; usually associated with a social institution; police/ judges/ school administrators/ acting in a capacity of exerting formal social; anyone acting from a largely recognized institution; control/ employers are considered a formal social control b/c workplace; a janitor within a social institution would not be considered a formal norm as he does not have a true power to hurt you or affect your life informal e. g. , being grounded for missing curfew ; gangsters, sanctions against other gang members, strangers" conceptions retroactive e. g. , academic sanctions for cheating on an exam; we try to prevent deviance from happening; parents punish us from trying to make bad behavior from happening in the future preventative e. g. , after school programs for at risk youth;