SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Edwin Sutherland, White-Collar Crime, Anomic Aphasia
21 Nov 2013
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Deviance: behaviour that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society (184) Deviant: person whose behaviour is viewed as typically rule-violating. Margin of tolerance: extent to which the commission of an act that is normally disapproved of, escapes censure. Deviance requires 2 parts: some action/condition on the part of the deviant. And: a negative response from the group. Deviantizing: the power to define what is acceptable and what is deviant (184) Stigma: a label used to devalue members of a certain group in society. Identifier: visible sign that suggests membership in a particular social role or group, Social distance: lack of closeness in social interaction; degree of separateness between an individual and the group. Self-fullfilling prophecy: tendency of people to respond to and act on the basis of stereotypes, leading to validation of definitions. Anomie: state where rules are unclear and results in more deviance due to lack of clarity.
