SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Herbert Mead, Social Control, Anomie
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Soc100h1 lec#3 breaking the rules: deviance and crime. Any behaviour that is thought to violate a widely held norm. Prof digresses that it depends on who you ask: there is a lot of variation in what people see as deviant in our community. Deviance includes all the behaviours that people disapprove of, ranging from committing murder to burping loudly. In social life, most rules and controls are largely invisible. Most people want to do the right thing. People base their opinions of themselves largely on how they believe other people view them: so they feel punished when other people disapprove of them. However, most social norms are informal and unspoken sometimes hard to learn: informal in that they are not written down/legislated but somehow we get to know what to do, and how to do it. Operates powerfully, but hard to see but we don"t know why or how it works.
