SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Control, Organized Crime, Socioeconomic Status

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

If the activity is going to be characterized by a distinct culture. Ideas, artifacts, language forum, rules: can be passed through participants, self-identity, the extent to which a participant is going to root their personal self-identity in the activity. A model of initiation, continuation and social change: explain and understand how we have the process of deviance, sources of new behaviour, random events, people discover deviance, just doing things and what they discover becomes enjoyable. Imitation: people will learn from other people who are already practicing the behaviour, or from the media, exploration, discover new ways of doing things, could arise out of boredom, or to generate income. Imposition: where persuasion can occur to engage in deviance, accommodation, something that arises when people are responding to a certain event. How deviance succeeds: deviant group organization, provide us with support, mechanisms for promoting commitment, sustaining philosophies, spell out the benefits of the membership.