SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Moral Panic, Labeling Theory, Ted Kaczynski

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jennifer Flad

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Soc 101 chapter 6: crime february 10: criminalization = the process by which the legal system negatively sanctions some form of deviant behavior. Were it not for deviance, norms and values would not come into existence. More important, the norms and values that limit or prohibit deviance would grow weak without the need to be exercised on a regular basis in response to deviant acts: society needs deviance. The most important strctzral-functional approach to deviance was developed by robert k. merton. The way in which people relate to the institutionalized means (example: getting a college degree and working hard) needed to achieve such cultural goals as economic success. Doubly deviant. (example: ernesto guevara); there are times when society needs more than gradual innovation it needs to change radically. Interested in larger structure of society and their affects on people. Focus on the major inequality that exists in those structures and the impact that it has on individuals.