SOC313H1 Lecture : SOC313 MARX READING FEBRUARY 27TH 2013.docx
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Many current theoretical approaches to deviance causation tend to neglect a crucial level of analysis: the specific interactive context within which rule breaking occurs. Tend to focus on rather abstract initial group properties such as opportunity structures and norms, rather than on the interactive group processes out of which behavior emerges. In what can be called the trampoline model of social control, norm violations lead to reparative social control responses. The systematic and reciprocal effects become most apparent after the deviance appears. In contrast, theorists such as reiss and hirschi see social control as an important variable in the production of deviance. Most interpretations tend to reify the categories of authority and criminal and to draw the line between them too sharply. The miss the interdependence that may exist between these groups. The idea that authorities may play a role in generating deviance is not new.
