SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Travis Hirschi, Social Inequality, Socalled
30 Apr 2012
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Deviance, crime, criminology, physiognomy, phrenology, strain theory, social control theory, robert merton, primary/secondary deviance, labelling theory, cultural support theory, control theory stigma, conflict theories. Deviance: it"s not the act itself, but the reactions to the acts that makes something deviant. Social rules: define situations and the kinds of behaviour appropriate to them, specifying some actions as right and forbidding others and wrong . Criminal and deviant: breaking both social and legal rules. Deviant, but not criminal: breaking social, but not legal, rules. Criminal, but not deviant: breaking legal rules, but not subjected to social disapproval, e. g. speeding. Context matters, e. g. tattoos on aboriginal people are culturally relevant. Canadian crime rates are the lowest they have been in decades. Going through unprecedented changes to crime bill to build more prisons across the country. Definitions of deviance must consider: culture, time/era, gender. Spiritual: magic, will of gods visited on earth; humans as tools, sin and evil powers.
