SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 6
Document Summary
Deviance: any transgression of socially established norms. Social control: mechanisms that create normative compliance: following the rules of group life. Informal social sanctions: unspoken rules of social life, we are all simultaneously agents and objects of social order, foundation of formal social control. Formal social sanctions: rules/laws expressly set forth by a society. Functionalist theories of deviance: social cohesion: how people form social bonds, relate to each other, and get along on a daily basis. Durkheim on social cohesion: collective conscience: shared assumptions about how the world works. Friday, march 4, 2016: mechanical solidarity: based on sameness, organic solidarity: based on difference and interdependence. Deviance and social control: punitive justice (mechanical) Making the violator suffer, thus de ning boundaries and strengthening the collective: rehabilitative justice (organic) Examines speci c circumstances of deviants, attempts to reform them. Philosophy of criminal justice based on the notion that crime results from a rational calculation of its costs and bene ts: recidivism.
