SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Male Unemployment, False Advertising, Ender Wiggin

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

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Deviance: departure from a norm that evokes a negative reaction from others. Crime: deviance that is against the law. Law: a norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies. Many otherwise deviant acts go unnoticed or are considered too trivial to warrant negative sanctions. People who are observed committing more serious acts of deviance are typically punished (formally or informally) Formal punishment: penalization by the judicial system for breaking a law. Criminals are usually formally punished by serving time in prison, paying fines, or with community service. Informal punishment: mild sanction imposed during face-to-face interaction rather than by the judicial system (cid:894)(cid:373)ay i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e (cid:396)aised eye(cid:271)(cid:396)o(cid:449)s, a ha(cid:396)sh sta(cid:396)e, a(cid:374) i(cid:396)o(cid:374)i(cid:272) s(cid:373)ile, gossip, ost(cid:396)a(cid:272)is(cid:373), (cid:862)sha(cid:373)i(cid:374)g(cid:863), o(cid:396) stig(cid:373)atizatio(cid:374)(cid:895) Stigmatization: process of negatively evaluating people because of a marker that distinguishes them from others. Types of deviance and crime vary in terms of the severity of the social response, which ranges from mild disapproval to capital punishment.