SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Social Control, Shoplifting, Three-Strikes Law
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Deviance any attitude, behavior, or condition that violates cultural norms or societal laws and results in disapproval, hostility, or sanction if it becomes known: may encompass crimes but often refers to noncriminal attitudes, behaviors, and conditions. Pluralistic societies societies made up of many diverse groups with different norms and values. Capital offenses crimes considered so heinous they are punishable by death. Phrenology theory that the skull shapes of deviant individuals differ from those of nondeviants. Atavisms throwbacks to primitive early humans. Good way to test biological theories is to compare parents with children (genetics: however, doesn"t always control these possibilities (can"t explain why children of farmers are more likely to be farmers than children of urban office workers) Critics of this theory see evidence of twins disproving of the influence of biology: identical twins more likely to be treated the same, dressed alike, and even confused with one another. Instead of nature vs. nurture, it is nature and nurture.
