SOCY 1004 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Informal Social Control, Rulemaking, Social Control
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See the link between deviance and social control. Understand the different between formal and informal social control. Discuss perspectives that focus on defining deviance. Talk about contrology or the new sociology of social control. Issue of etiology (less central to their concerns) and they are likely to select powerlessness and marginality as one of the major causes of engaging in deviance and crime. Labeling theorists argue that ay analysis of deviance has to begin with how wrongdoing is conceived and conceptualised. Typically - the person who is designated as deviant did something and there are reasons why this is so. Conflict theorists focus their differentials in power and in the genesis of the law and its passage and enforcement. Constructionism focuses on the creation of social categories: Investigate the causes of deviant behavior, beliefs, and conditions they regard as unacceptable becomes the central focus.
