SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informal Social Control, Social Control, Copyright Infringement
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When people break or bend the rules of society . They are likely to do so as part of a subculture. Ex: as members of a vaping subculture, smoking in public places. In that way, they are assured of social support even though they are breaking (or bending) the rules of the larger community. Every day, many people break the rules of society. Rule-breaking occurs whenever communities expect, insist on, and enforce social order. Paradox: with an expected and enforced order, and widespread conformity to it, deviance is assured. When people try to control deviance by creating more rules, they create more deviance and rule-breaking. What all deviant behaviors have in common is that members of a group feel their values or security are threatened. To sociologists, then, deviance refers to any behavior that leads to a negative reaction by the community. When no one feels threatened, people are likely to view the behavior as just an expression of individuality.
