SOC101R Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Control, Differential Association, Edwin Sutherland
15 Oct 2016
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The social foundations of: all behavior is shaped by society, deviance varies according to cultural norms, people become deviant as others define them that way, both rule-making and rule-breaking involve social power. Critical analysis around people with positions of power making the rules. Functionalist perspective (durkheim: society is the source of definitions of deviance, deviance functions to , unify society. Every 6 days, a woman loses her lie to the hands of her partner. We all think this is bad (unifying) Conflict perspective: deviance is determined by those in power, 2 approaches , pluralist position: various individuals & groups compete to have their definitions accepted, critical school: economic elite is the major force behind definitions. Rich people taking advantage of the poor. Main way people look at deviance in sociology currently. Social groups create deviance by : making rules, applying those rules to particular people , labelling them outsiders. How definitions exist (very much rooted in si)
