CRIM 104 Lecture Notes - Anthony Giddens, Social Forces

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 104
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

Document Summary

Why is sociology relevant to criminology: anthony giddens sociology involves a study of social relations, forces, conduct, conventions, constraints, and institutions, which are important issues for criminologists. Examples, great depression, civil rights and women"s movement, rapid technological innovations, increased globalization: social conduct how we behave or conduct ourselves in our social relations. Do we adhere to social conventions: social conventions norms or expectations what people expect we will do. Some are formal (prescribed in law and potentially restrained by social constraints) Some informal (expected but not illegal: social constraints can be formal or informal. Formal constraints are the law, the courts, the police, and the prison system; Informal constraints include rejection, shunning, or exclusion: social institutions largely modern creations, designed to constrain those who do not follow social convention.