SOC205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Teenage Life, Social Control
24 Dec 2015
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No room for industry: working to achieve things. Why farm if there"s no safety or functioning government that will protect your crops. Live in continual fear of dying or being attacked. The difference between a society and the state of nature is social order: that is, social life is (relatively) orderly and predictable. Leads people to act in a predictable way. Social control is how a society preserves social order: socialization of new members (children, immigrants) A motivation of how you"re supposed to behave. Sarcastic remarks, tactful remarks, gossip, etc: formal social control, informal social control by interaction partners, e. g. family, friends, co-workers, Organizational rules (e. g. uw): all organizations enforce social control. Formal social control enforcement agencies (e. g. criminal justice system) Adolescence was not recognized as a distinct life stage (age status) until early 20th c. G. stanley hall, adolescence: its psychology and its relations to physiology, Anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education (1904)
