SOC 1005 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Erving Goffman, Murder 2, Symbolic Interactionism
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Trump writes books about it: but in china, it is a crime called profiteering. If social life is to exist, norms are essential. Deviance is not associated with any particular personality: sociologists search for factors outside the individual, they look for social influences that recruit people to break norms. Inner controls: morality, conscience, religious principles, ideas of right and wrong, fears of punishment and desire to be a good person: outer controls: consists of people such as family, friends, and the police, Focuses on the significance of reputations, how reputations or labels help set us on paths that propel us into deviance or divert us away from it. Chapter 6: deviance and social control: degradation ceremony: ritual whose goal is to remake someone"s self by stripping away that individual"s self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place, form of shaming b. The functionalist perspective: can deviance really be functional for society, emile durkheim deviance is functional for society.
