SOCIOL 1650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Labeling Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, Social Inequality
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Assumptions about sociologists: boy scout types; social workers: social work: helping people; sociology is understanding society. With informants they are often encouraged to continue their deviant behavior in order to gain more information. When law enforcement consciously encourage rule breaking; generation of motives for rule breaking: ex: a man leaves a bar, drunk. Officers see the man get in his car. Tell the man he can"t sleep in his car. He leaves and they arrest him for drunk driving. Social solidarity: frequency of interaction and the degree of sharing of beliefs, values and morals in a group: social integration, social regulation. Mechanical: premodern, sameness of the individual parts and people in a society, restitutive punishment- attempts to restore the status quo that existed prior to the offense. Organic: modern, interdependence because members perform different and specialized functions, rehabilitative punishment- transform the offender into a productive member of society.
