SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Milgram Experiment, Labeling Theory, Anomie

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Social control: techniques and strategies employed for preventing deviant human behavior in any society: occurs on all levels of society: parents, peer groups, colleges, organizations, governments. Sanctions: penalties and rewards for conduct concerning social norms: functionalist: people must respect social normas for group or society to survive, conflict theorists: successful functioning of society made possible by adherence to social norms benefits the powerful. Social control: informal social control: used casually to enforce norms, formal social control: carried out by authorized agents, informal social control can undermine formal social control, encouraging people to violate social norms. Labeling perspective: labeling theory: attempts to explain why some people are viewed as deviants while others engaged in the same behavior are not, societal-reaction approach, reminds us that the response to an act, not the behavior, determines deviance. Crime: victimless crime, professional crime, organized crime, white collar and tech based crime, cyber crime, hate crime.