Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Travis Hirschi, Labeling Theory, The Strongest
13 Apr 2016
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How people with physical abnormaliies manage the presentaion. Braithwale: we"ve been using the wrong kind of shaming western socieies. We should switch deintegrative shaming pracices to reintegrative shaming pracices. Said we should do more reintegrate pracices. Is transformed with social control theories to why don"t more people do it? . Control theories assume that everyone is capable of deviance. Deviance is alluring and exciing and an easy route to goal atainment. Believe that there are many types of deviant behaviors (exciing, dangerous, saddening, etc. Just because were born deviant, doesn"t mean well coninue being deviant. You have a choice to conform or not to conform. When social control works, it creates conformity; when it fails, it does not necessarily create deviance, it just provides the individual with opportuniies to choose a deviant path. Deviance occurs when social bonds become weak or broken. You have a lot to lose if you become or be deviant.
