Soc112
- Crime is normal and deviance is relative
- Stop asking "why do they do it?"
- Get some perspective: rules change over time and space.
- Deviance is a property of social things.
- Social environments create crime, deviance, and delinquency
- How people behave is strongly influenced by surroundings
- Socialization, values, worldview
- Goals and opportunities
- Stresses, strains, supports
- Social control can act as a deviance amplification system
- Labels and secondary deviance
- More enforcement, more reporting, more detection
- Deviation from rules serves important functions for society
- Boundaries
- Solidarity
- Innovation
- "Deviance" can be a form of conflict resolution and rebellion
- Canary in coal mine.
- Coming out and fighting back.
- Change through disobedience.
- Every rule is somebody's rule: moral panics, moral crusades, and status politics
- Rhetoric, claims-making
- Symbolic politics
- Moral panics
- Social control varies in predictable ways : Social control as a variable
- Six styles of social control
- Independent variables predicting social control
- Social control as independent variable: deterrence and conformity
- Organizations present special problems
- Organizations are not persons – many social control assumptions assume humans, analogies fail.
- Organizations can be gigantic.
- Why should organizations be good citizens?
- Law is only a small part of the social control system.
- Most disputes and conflicts are settled extra-legally.
- Law as tip of iceberg.
- Norms as one other system.
- Personal contracts as another.
- Organizational rules as another.
- The Precariousness of Social Control
- Control gets out of hand.
- Big brother and surveillance.
- Prison experiments, obedience to authority experiments.
- Very easy to think/see like an organization.