Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ritualism In The Church Of England, Labeling Theory
7 Mar 2017
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Norms vary widely and deviance is relative. What some people consider normal, others consider deviant, and vice versa. No act is deviant in and of itself. From a sociological point of view, everyone is a deviant in one social context or another. Informal punishment: involves a mild sanction that is imposed during face-to-face interaction, not by the judicial system (ex. raised eyebrows, gossip, ostracism, shaming or stigmatization) Formal punishment: takes place when judicial system penalizes someone for breaking a law. Types of deviance and crime vary in terms of: severity of the social response, perceived harmful of the deviant act or criminal act, degree of public agreement about whether an act should be considered deviant. People may learn deviant and criminal behaviour when they interact with others. Identifying the social circumstances that promote the learning of deviant and criminal roles is a traditional focus of symbolic interactionists.
