SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Peer Pressure, Informal Social Control, Milgram Experiment
1 Dec 2015
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Soc 100 - lecture 32 deviance & social control. Even though there is nobody to sanction us (penalize us for our. Sanctions: penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm. behaviour): sanctions are how we develop social control, there are formal and informal sanctions: Example of informal sanctions: if you are doing deviant behaviour to your neighbor, your neighbors might ostracize you. Example of formal sanction: if you are engaging in deviant behaviour and your neighbor invokes the police to deal with the situation. Conformity & obedience: conformity: going along with peers who have no special right to direct behaviour. They are not your bosses, but many people like to conform to the group they are a part of (peer pressure). Research demonstrates that people may conform to attitudes and behaviour of peers even when it means expressing intolerance towards others: obedience: compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
