SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Harm Reduction, Social Control, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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There are different views on what social control is. He says that earlier definitions of social control talked about it broadly (anything that lends structure to society. Expectations around gender, socialization, etc. into particular roles). So earlier definitions of sc looked at it from a socialization perspective and as the things that give the social world order. For this class, we will look at social control as responding to acts of deviance. Sometimes, people look at informal and formal social control. This can be problematic because it isn"t always clear whether something is formal or informal. There are peer dynamics, teacher expectations, etc. and there are many diverse things related to education that don"t slot easily into informal and formal social control. They provide the same dilemma as informal and social control in that things aren"t always easy to stream into one or the other category. Donald black: the social structure of right and wrong.
