SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anomie, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Control
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Social deviance: any transgression of socially established norms. Crime: the violation of laws enacted by society. Social control the mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals, 2 categories: Formal social sanctions rules or laws. Informal social sanctions often unexpressed, but known (cid:1) Durkheim (mechanism and organic solidarity, the division of labor) Suicide, egoism, anomie, especially in modern society (also altruistic and fatalistic) Graph measuring social integration and social regulation (how controlled are you by the norms of society: if you are to high or too low than you are more likely to commit suicide (cid:1) Merton applies durkheim"s ideas and the concept of anomie to understand other forms of deviance.