SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dysfunctional Family, Mental Disorder, Advocacy Group
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Lecture 10: the role of the state & the media. Moral entrepreneurs which group of people starts moral panic: grassroots model, public starts panic, existence of widespread fear, elite model: political elite starts panic. 3: divert attention from real social problems. Interest group model: non-political elite creates panic, media, religious groups, professional associations , achieve their own self interest. Why do people conform to social control: assumption: anyone can commit crime, all subject to social pressures, motives: are diverse o, when absent >> deviance, main restraints: Focus: restraining forces = conformity family, socialization, social ties/attachment (attachment to society less likely to commit crime and deviance whereas isolated people are more likely to commit crime related to. Give us: self-esteem, goal orientated, high frustration tolerance, strong ethics (2) external containment. Ex. suicide as a form of deviance. Social control theory (travis hirschi: attachment to people. I talk to my friends in time of need.
