SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Constructionism, Impression Management, Labeling Theory
28 Dec 2015
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What is deviance: a behaviour that violates societal standards of conduct or expectations, overt characteristics, explicit connection to the behaviour, covert characteristics. What is social control: techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behaviour in any society. Informal sanctions- casual responses (e. g. , smile, disgusted look): formal sanctions- authorized agent (e. g. , policies, laws), cultural differences. Our culture provides us with desired goals and legitimate means. Subcultural theory: status frustration-members of the lower-class experience status frustration when they are unable to succeed in middle-class institutions and then become socialized into a deviant subculture. Labeling theory: social constructionism versus essentialism, master status- a status that goes above all other statuses, stigma, other- not in own social group, gets the name of being an other , moral entrepreneur. Ideas to understand: race, pressure to assimilate, racialization, profiling, gender, normalizing male values, mysogyny (patriarchal construct, class (covert characteristic, school-to-prison hypothesis (also race, social resources.
