SOC 1305 Chapter 4: Deviance and Social Control
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The adlers researched self-harm: internet functions as a meeting place, a refuge from self-imposed isolation, unconventional behavior marginalizes them, preventing them from receiving help, interactionists recognize the critical nature of self-injurer"s interpersonal contacts. Social control techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society. Ultimate formal sanction is the death penalty. People often receive competing messages about how to behave. Functionalists people must respect social norms if a group or society is to survive. Conflict theorists successful functioning of a society will consistently benefit the powerful and work to the disadvantage of other groups. Conformity going along with peers (individuals of our own status, who have no special right to direct our behavior) Obedience compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchal structure. Milligram"s experiment of electric shocks: 2/3 of subjects obeyed the experimenter completely, shift responsibility for behavior to the authority figure. Conflict theorist obedience may be affected but he value we place on those whom our behavior affects.