SOC 101 Study Guide - Harold Garfinkel, Symbolic Interactionism, Erving Goffman
14 Mar 2014
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What is the purpose of social control: by making behavior predictable, norms make social life possible. Consequently, all human groups develop a system of social control with formal and informal means of enforcing norms: one important means of social control are negative sanctions, which can range from frowns to capital punishment. Symbolic interactionists, functionalists, and conflict theorists each have their own sets of theories for understanding and analyzing deviance and social control: The symbolic interacionist perspective on deviance and social control: for the symbolic interactionist approach on deviance, the focus is on memberships in groups and how groups affect behaviors, a. Claims that people learn to either deviate from or conform to society"s norms through the different groups with whom they associate. What we learn influences us toward or away from deviance. Families, friends, neighborhoods, and subcultures with which people associate teach us attitudes that, in turn, translate into conforming or deviating behaviors.
