SOC 10000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Panopticism, Edwin Sutherland, Broken Windows Theory
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What is social deviance: social deviance is any transgression of socially established norms. Functionalist approaches to deviance and social control: social cohesion is the social bonds; how well people relate to each other and get along on a day-to-day basis. This (cid:449)as du(cid:396)khei(cid:373)(cid:859)s fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)alist app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374: du(cid:396)khei(cid:373)(cid:859)s thesis stated that there are two basic ways society can hold together. Mechanical/segmental solidarity which is the social cohesion based on sameness. Punishments may also be restitutive: social control. Social control is the set of mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals. Formal social sanctions are the mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior. Informal social sanctions are the usually unexpressed but widely known rules of group membership; the unspoken rules of social life. The process of socialization is largely responsible for people(cid:859)s a(cid:272)(cid:395)uisitio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g of u(cid:374)spoke(cid:374) (cid:396)ules in group social life. Everyone is a spectator and an object of spectacle: a normative theory of suicide.
