SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Control, Rulemaking, Positivism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Norman Dubeski

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Informal social control is the foundation of social life. Perspectives that focus on defining deviance: the constructionist approaches include labeling or interactionist theory, conflict theory (including marxism), feminist theory, and controlology or the. This doesn"t mean that, prior to the social construction of the category of. Labeling theory today: labeling theory"s influence declined sharply since its heyday roughly from the mid- Marxist theory: can summarize the depiction of women in writing on deviance prior to 1960s and. Women were studied less, appeared less often as subjects of attention, remained marginal, secondary, almost invisible. When deviance of women was studied it was always specialized deviance; the deviance of men was deviance in general, the deviance of women was women"s deviance. Forms of deviance and crime women engage in are very different from those that men commit, i. e. shoplifting, mental illness and prostitution; women"s participation in deviance has been stereotyped in the literature.