SOC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Medicalization, Labeling Theory, Social Control

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1010
• Professor: Lovaglia Michael

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Behavior that departs significantly from socially expected rules and norms. Emerges in a social context, not just behavior. Formal deviance: behavior that breaks laws or official rules. Certain behaviors are defined differently in different places. Durkhei(cid:373) (cid:862)pu(cid:374)ishi(cid:374)g de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)fir(cid:373)s ge(cid:374)eral so(cid:272)ial sta(cid:374)dards, affir(cid:373)s the (cid:272)olle(cid:272)t beliefs of society, reinforces social order, and inhibits future deviant behavior. Sociologists see deviance as influenced by society. Deviance may be a positive/rational adaptation to a situation. Some cultures, deviance is encouraged and praises. Attri(cid:271)utes de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior to a (cid:862)si(cid:272)k(cid:863) state of (cid:373)i(cid:374)d solutio(cid:374) is to (cid:862)(cid:272)ure(cid:863) (cid:449)ith treatment. Deviance is not a pathological state but an adaptation to the social structures in which people live (according to most sociologists) (cid:862)de(cid:448)ia(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:272)tually (cid:272)reates so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)ohesio(cid:374)(cid:863) functionalist theorists. Durkheim studied how suicide could be explained by social factors and classified anomic, altruistic, or egoistic suicide. Anomie: condition that exists when social regulations in society break down-the controlling influences of society no longer effective.