SOC 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corporate Crime, Harold Garfinkel, Life Serial
16 Nov 2016
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Deviance: an act considered by public consensus or by the powerful at a given time to be a violation of some social rule. Three factors involve: varies by time, place, and public power. What is deviant changes over time: criminal deviance: deviance that involves violating criminal law, i. e. homicide and robbery, noncriminal deviance: deviance that violates currently accepted social norms, i. e. pornography. Stigma: (cid:862)(cid:271)le(cid:373)ishes(cid:863) that dis(cid:272)redit a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:272)lai(cid:373) to a (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) identity. Social order: the groups usual and customary social arrangements of which its members depend and of which they base their lives. Social control: a groups formal and informal means of enforcing its norms. Negative sanctions: an expression of disapproval for breaking a. Positive sanctions: an expression of approval for following a norm. Personality disorders: that view that a personality disturbance of some sort causes an individual to violate social norms. Control theory: the idea that two control systems work against our tendencies to deviate.
