SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Sex Offender Registry, Interpol, Binge Drinking
23 Dec 2012
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Social control: techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society. Sanctions: penalties of rewards for conduct concerning a social norm. Conformity: going along with peers, individuals with no special right. Obedience: compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. Formal social control: carried by authorized agents, the last resort when socialization and informal sanctions are ineffective in obtaining desired behavior. Reflects continually changing standards of right and wrong, how violations are determined and how sanctions are to be applied. Socialization primary source of conforming and obedient behavior, we have internalized such norms as good and committed to observing them, people are socialized both want to belong and to fear being viewed as deviant. First year students, males and students who live on campus drink more than others, the number of cases has been increasing and affecting younger classes
