PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Robbery, Black Canadians, False Advertising
13
PSY100Y5 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
13 documents
Document Summary
All information is straight from the textbook, soc+, written by brym and lie. Sanctions: many otherwise deviant acts go unnoticed or are too trivial to warrant negative sanctions, which are actions indicating disapproval of deviance, those who commit serious acts of deviance are punished, either informally or formally. Age and gender: males are more likely to commit crime compared to females, the 15 to 24-year-old age cohort is the most prone to criminal behavior. Symbolic interactionist approached to deviance and crime: people may learn deviant and criminal behavior when they interact with others. Judges, in turn, tended to give more severe sentences to adolescents from divorced families than to adolescents from intact families who were charge with similar delinquent acts: the labeling process acted as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Functionalist explanations: functionalists direct their attention to the social dysfunctions that lead to deviant and criminal behavior. Durkheim: deviance and crime are beneficial for society.
