SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Restorative Justice, Edwin Sutherland, Socalled

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Richard Westerman

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Makes society possible: it(cid:1685)s the common framework we all operate within. They determine a (cid:1684)normal(cid:1685) way of acting. Structural functionalists social structures = created by needs of society, above. Symbolic interactionists - social structures = re- creation by meaningful acts. Critical theorists - social structures = serve the interests of one group by repressing. Social structure regular, predictable, repeated forms of social relations in operation most the time. But diverse individuals, despite that we(cid:1685)re only able to interact with the ease we do because of social structure. Major theoretical paradigms assume some social structure: individual control another. Deviance behaviour that contradicts normal social structures or values to a degree that leads others to condemn or punish it. Societies themselves punish such deviance that(cid:1685)s why social structure is enforced as it is important deviance does not mean open revolt against social structures but the deviant is usually aware of being deviant.