SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deterrence Theory, Lysis, Digital Negative
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Discuss a wide variety of formal social controls and theories behind them. Controversy over the death penalty in the us. New prostitution legislation in canada (bill c-36) Social control of dissent g20, umbrella protests. Social control: methods used by members of society to maintain order and predictability. Ex, the way the teacher stands at the front and students sit in front of them is a form of social control. Or people wouldn"t cheat because there is an expectation that you wouldn"t cheat. Ex, gossiping about the person that did something wrong. Legal action occurs when informal social control fails. Folkways: established norms of common practice: how we dress, speak to each other, they can change from one culture to another. Mores: social norms associated with right/wrong: a morality, taboos: incent, killing, don"t change among cultures. Examples: ridicule, ostracism, public criticism, gossip (social sanctions) Social group central, no central administration (bottom up: more effective in small, homogeneous communities.
