SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dean Skelos, Sheldon Silver, Carried Interest
11 Oct 2016
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Every society is structured by norms, they come from social interactions hence they rely on interpretation and meaning. Modern societies have subcultures which have values and norms distinct from those of the majority. Norms rely on sanctions which are any positive or negative reaction to a behavior. Crime are any action that contravene the laws established by a political authority. Deviance: modes of action that do not conform to the norms and values held by most members of a group or society. Crime is an imbalance between impulses toward criminal activity and controls that deter it. Its extremely expensive and usually focuses on outgroup populations because fighting crime would mean decreasing opportunities to steal or commit crimes. Deviance and crime are often political statements resisting the economic and social order as a whole. Laws are usually written by elite powers and groups, so crimes they are more likely to commit remain comparatively unpunished.
