SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ritualism In The Church Of England, Meritocracy, Social Inequality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Research has indicated that the self-recognized discrepancy between expectations and. False aspirations and expectations or what we can actually do with our life, could potentially lead to delinquency, but it is not strongly correlated (pg. 195) Emile durkheim looked at the function or society. Tried to explain how society works and often used biological analogies. Deviance is functional can have a positive function for the rest of society. Deviance would come from people who are doing lesser than happy, we would still have deviance someone else. Functional because whenever something goes against the norm of society, it helps conformists band together/ strengthens social ties and commitments. Anytime there is a rule breakers, it serves as a . Rest of us know what we should be doing and how far we can go. Argued in social situations, we don"t always know what those norms are.