SOC 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Deviant Behavior: Rulemaking, Social Control, Feminist Theory

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 014
• Professor: Lutz F Kaelber

Document Summary

Constructionist approaches begin with the issue of how wrongdoing is constructed: also addresses the consequences of rulemaking and rule enforcement, focuses on: The imputation of deviance to those categories. Why certain behaviors tend to occur more by powerless and politically marginal people. Social control is efforts to construct and assured the conformity to a norm in society: both formal and informal, governmental and interpersonal, internal and external, helps explain the continued existence of society. Through learning acceptable norms and punishing unacceptable ones, social control ensures societies survival. Rules and norms themselves are universal: there is not and never has been a country without rules and norms because it could not survive without them. Deviance is not just the violation of norms but the dynamic between their violation and their enforcement. It is that which calls forth efforts to exert social control.