SOC313H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Movie Star, Baldus De Ubaldis, Social Exchange Theory
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This course is concerned with the institutions, practices, and performances that reproduce social order from day-to-day and year-to-year. Christopher jencks (cid:498)one of the classic puzzles- perhaps the classic puzzle- of social theory is how society interest of society(cid:499) induces us to behave in ways that serve not our own interest, but the common. Control mechanisms serve to eliminate undesirable behaviour and encourage desirable behaviour. Even pirates exercise social control (common rules on pirate ships) The hobo code of conduct (vagrant or itinerant worker) Morris janowitz (1975) sociological theory and social control. Social control was a central idea in the emergence of sociology as a discipline. Social control is a key aspect of all (cid:498)social organization(cid:499) namely the capacity of a take home message- the core element in (cid:498)social control(cid:499) is the idea of self- group, society, or community to regulate itself. Social control involves a value to commitment to 2 elements:
