SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Travis Hirschi, Prejudice, Shoplifting

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Tepperman

Document Summary

Any enduing predictable pattern of social relations among people in society. The social institutions, practices, and norms that support an automatic assumption that people are or should be heterosexual. Any sexual deviation or departure from the norm. Social concern about and (often) overreaction to certain deviant behaviours that may be fairly trivial in nature or frequency. Methods used to prevent or deter crime by imposing significant costs on those who offend. The degradation of prisoners during their socialization into prison life, causing a later inability to function effectively outside of the prison environment. The process by which a behaviour or an individual may be made criminal when certain acts or behaviours are made illegal through legislation or judicial decision. Crimes committed out of racial, religious, or sexual prejudice, targeting minority groups. Behaviour that fails to conform to societal norms and thereby poses a threat to social order. Any enduring, predictable pattern of social relations among people in society.