SOC 101 Study Guide - Embezzlement, Extortion, Differential Association

• School: ASU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Ch. 4 study guide - deviance, crime and social control: social control including A: formal social control (formal sanctions): laws/taboos. Folkways, mores, and taboos: folkways - refers to simple everyday norms based on customs, traditions, or etiquette, mores - not formalized laws and sanctions. 1: formal - carried out by authorized agents. Conformity and obedience: conformity - going along with peers who have no special right to direct our behavior. Getting tattoos, style of dress: obedience - to your parents. the law. Higher authority: de nition of deviance, violation of widely accepted social norms. Stigma: an attribute, behavior, or reputation which is socially discrediting in a particular way: it causes an individual to be mentally classi ed by others in an undesirable, rejected stereotype rather than in an accepted, normal one. Them, the fastest way to riches: the reason people become deviant is because they stick with a label that is negative, and it gets repeated in their brain.