SOCIOL 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Stanford Prison Experiment, Altruistic Suicide, Group Cohesiveness

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

Document Summary

Social deviance - any transgression of socially established norms. Crime - violation of laws enacted by society. Norms and rules change, so deviance varies with context of the situation. Social cohesion - the way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and get along on a day-to-day basis. Mechanical solidarity - social cohesion based on sameness. Organic solidarity - social cohesion based on difference and interdependence of the parts. When someone commits an act of deviance, they offend the collective conscience (the set of social norms by which a society abides) Punishments attempt to restore the status quo that existed prior to an offensive event. Social control - the set of mechanisms that create normative compliance abiding by society"s norms. Formal social sanctions - mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior. Informal social sanctions - the usually unexpressed by widely known rules of group membership unspoken rules.