SOC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Edwin Sutherland, Moral Panic, Differential Association

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Must be insane to do something like that. Mental illness as an explanation for crime. People in societies make and enforce rules. Deviance is an indicator of social order / social structure. Deviance demonstrates the failure to make everyone behave the same/or adapt the same. Deviance and crime are hidden - come into view only when we are looking for them. Only few acts of rule-breaking are recorded, a lot isn"t: depends on the crime. Petty thefts, threats, minor assaults - aren"t reported. Appearance deviance - violation of appearance norms, showing it is very easy to break societies rules, even without meaning to: the way of dressing that mainstream society finds unacceptable or less usual. Example - piercings, tattoos, obesity, anorexia: all violate prevailing cultural standards, social in their effects - leads to labelling, stigmatization, exclusion, gives rise to deviance communities/subcultures because of this stigmatization, violations of social expectations.