SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Informal Social Control, Social Control, George Herbert Mead
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Deviance is about the violence of expectations and the delivery of the punishments for those expectations. When people are (cid:271)reak or (cid:271)end the rules of so(cid:272)iety . In that way, they are assured if social support even when breaking rules of a larger community: rules of group a are in opposition of the rules of group b. Deviance occurs everywhere, in every 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. Ways of dealing with deviant behavior: formal and informal controls. "social control" refers to all the practices used to force people to conform to rules of expected behavior. Formal social control gives specific people (such as police officers) the responsibility to enforce specific laws, using specific methods of enforcement. Informal social control which is done through gossip, praise or blame among other things.
