01:920:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Crime, Witch-Hunt, Differential Association
27 Sep 2013
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Chapter outline: why focus on the people"s republic of china, it represents an interesting case for studying issues of deviance, conformity, and social control, in china from 1966 to 1976, during the period known as the cultural. Revolution, many behaviors constituted deviance and could elicit interrogation, arrest, and punishment. When socialization fails to produce conformity, other mechanisms of social control sanctions, censorship, or surveillance may be used to convey and enforce norms: norms give order and predictability to life, and some norms are considered more important than others. There are two kinds of norms: folkways are customary ways of handling the routine matters of, mores are norms that people define as essential to the well-being everyday life. of their group. Negative sanction - an expression of disapproval for noncompliance: sanctions can be formal or informal. i. The functionalist perspective: core concept 3: it is impossible for a society to exist without deviance.
