Sociology 2259 Lecture 18: Lecture 18 Review
1 Apr 2012
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The legitimate processes of defining and treating deviants when they persist in their deviance and it doesn t go away by itself through informal control. Imputational specialists: doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, expert witnesses as well as police, lawyers, judges, criminologists, church officials. Official labels have the tendency to stick . Caught up in a network of records and official sanctions. Decision are mostly about what the problem is (diagnosis) and how it is to be treated (treatment) Formal social control is in the hands of experts . They have the power to: define deviance, create deviance, make it go away. Unlike informal control, which controls identity, formal social control can physically control the body of the deviant: remove the body from the social setting, confine the body to a hospital, prison, or asylum ( total institution ) Michel foucault, discipline and punish: the history of the prison. Docile bodies are those that do not resist control.
