SOC 2070 Lecture 3: Week 3 Readings.docx
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Deviance and social control: social control efforts to ensure conformity to a norm, every time people do something to induce someone to engage in behaviour they believe is right, they are engaged in social control, ex. Internal social control operates through the process of socialization: by learning and adopting the norms of the society/particular group/collectively within the society, all people are socialized by identifiable agents. Informal social control takes place in interpersonal interaction between and among people who are acting on their own in an unofficial capacity: ex. Labeling or interactionist theory: focuses on rule making and reactions to rule breaking, symbolic interactionism, 1. People act on the basis of the meaning that things have for them: 2. This meaning grows out of interaction with others, especially intimate others: 3. Lemert social pathology: primary deviation: the enactment of deviant behaviour itself-in any form. It is polygenetic (caused by a wide range of factors)
