SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corporate Crime, Hate Crime, Georg Simmel

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Week eight soc 1100 sociology march 15th. Deviance the norm violations ranging of cultural norms ranging from minor to serious. Crime the violation of a society"s formally enacted criminal law: crime against the person (including murder, assault, rape and robbery, crime against poverty (property crime, auto theft, arson and burglary) Social control attempts by society to regulate people"s thoughts and behaviours. Criminal justice system the organization that responses to alleged violations of the law (police) Labelling theory the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions. Stigma a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person"s self-concept and identity. Medicalization of deviance the transformation of moral and legal deviance into conditions. Theories of deviance: biological focus on individual abnormality, explain human behaviour due to instincts, psychological focus on individual abnormality, result to unsuccessful socialization.