SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Ritualism In The Church Of England, Differential Association, Labeling Theory

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100
• Professor: Debra Pentecost

Document Summary

Social control: attempts by society to regulate people"s thoughts and behavior. Types of norms: folkways, mores, laws: criminal justice system. What is deviant in one society may be normal in another. People become deviant as others define them that way. Deviance always about power - power to define an act as deviant or not. Deviance created through social control (reactions to behaviors) -- not a characteristic of behaviors. Crime is the social norms formalized in criminal law. Understand political processes & power relations that create definitions of deviance. Determine who the definitions are applied to. Determine consequences for those defined as deviant. Innovation: people may be innovative and use crime to achieve their wealth (ends) Conformity: many people try to achieve the wealth by working hard (socially acceptable means) Ritualism: people recognize that they cannot become wealthy so they settle for a lower level goal. Retreatism: when people disregard achieving wealth and the lower level goal.