CRM2302- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
1 Dec 2017
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The foundations for all the societal reaction theories were laid in the work early interactionist. Is there a difference between things in themselves and things as they appear to us? and subculture theories: meaning produced through interaction, symbols (including language), culture, perception. Social groups (moral entrepreneurs law makers & law enforcers) create deviance, by making the rules whose infraction constitutes deviance, and by applying those rules to particular people and labeling them as outsiders. Different social groups within society form their own operational rules. Different groups judge different behaviours to be deviant. Thus the process of forming this reaction is intimately bound up with defining deviance. Groups can have a range of potential reactions to rule-breaking, from ignoring it, to mild reaction, to outright scorn, to criminal proceedings. Thus de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:272)(cid:396)eated (cid:271)y so(cid:272)iety: (cid:374)ot th(cid:396)ough (cid:272)auses su(cid:272)h as (cid:862)so(cid:272)ial fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s(cid:863), (cid:271)ut (cid:271)y (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g the rules that govern behaviour, and reacting to certain rule-breakers by considering them deviant.
