SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Main Source, Attachment Theory, Social Forces
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I. social de nition of deviance and crime cultural groups within one country. Rules for greeting people vary widely from one country to the next and among different. Violating local norms can cause great offence. Because norms vary widely, deviance is relative. Everyone is a deviant in one social context or another: difference between deviance and crime. 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. Anyone who advocates or promotes genocide commits a crime under canadian law. What is considered a crime in some times and places is considered perfectly normal in other times and places: sanctions. Ii. measuring crime negative sanctions, or actions indicating approval. Many otherwise deviant acts go unnoticed or are considered too trivial to warrant. Formal punishment: penalized by the judicial system for breaking a law.
