SOC 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Market Manipulation, Larceny, White-Collar Crime

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Eg going along with the crowd (horizantal form of social control) We seek to read such cues in new situations such as a first date or a job interview formal social control is carried out by authorised agents, such as police officers, managers etc. It can serve as a last resort when socialization and informal sanctions do not bring about desired behavior. some norms are so important to a society that they are formalised into laws limiting peoples behavior. Laws- formal norms enforced by the state- are a form of governmental social control. Crime: a violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties. Labelling theory :emphasizes how a person comes to be labeled as deviant or to accept that label. unlike sutherlands work, labelling theory does not focus on why some individuals come to commit deviant acts.

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