Soci 100 - Homework - Chapter 6. Social Control And Deviance

modes of action that do not conform to the norms or values held by most members of the group or society

Functions: -to punish young people -to stigmatize young people -to criminalize young people Not Functions: -to nurture young people -to indoctrinate young people

to enact vengeance on the wrongdoer

to restore the status quo that existed before the offense

to transform the wrongdoer into a productive member of society

Factors: -not recognizing or not accepting socially approved goals -failure to recognize and accept socially approved means of achieving one's goals Not Factors: -being either much less or much more successful at achieving one's goals than the average person -having unusual or atypical beliefs about how society should operate

Formal: -a parent explains to a child that the law requires kids to go to school -a police officer directs traffic near the venue of a major sporting event Informal: -an adult scowls and shakes her head at a child, not hers, playing roughly in a store aisle with toys pulled off the shelves -a paramedic shouts at a patient to slow down in the hospital parking lot

secondary deviance is an eventual effect of primary deviance, where deviance begins

the torture inflicted on Damien's body, especially his right hand with which he tried to stab the king

the military

1. body 2. soul 3. punitive 4. reformative 5. spectacle 6. surveillance

Examples: -the deviant member publicly reminds everyone of the line between what is acceptable and what is not -the other members of the group join together in order to punish and/or rehabilitate the offender Not Examples: -by challenging the establish order, the deviant member stimulates other to think creatively and to break out of settled routines

Applications: -graffiti-proofing walls with a wash-off coating -a crackdown on petty crime, like drinking in public Not Applications: -long mandatory prison terms for violent felonies -additional community centers with activities for at-risk youth

embraces socially acceptable goals and the means to achieve those goals

embraces socially acceptable means but rejects the goal

rejects both socially acceptable goals and the means to achieve the goals, and wants to change or destroy the social order

embraces socially acceptable goals but rejects the means to achieve those goals

rejects both socially acceptable goals and the means to achieve the goals, and does not participate in society

Dan, a lieutenant in the Marines, is disciplined and then discharged for leadership mistakes in battle that led to the death of two soldiers in his platoon. Despondent about the deaths of the soldiers and the loss of his military career, he kills himself a few months after his discharge.

Carlotta, sentenced to life in prison for a crime she did not commit, and unable to stand the unvarying daily routine of prison life, hangs herself with a bed sheet.

Albert has no friends and does not feel any emotional connection with his coworkers or even with his own family members. He kills himself because he does not see any point in continuing with his life.

Bernice became wealthy almost overnight as a result of extremely lucky financial investments. She quit her job, spent lavishly on gifts for friends, family, and associates, but finds it impossible to settle into a new, happy, routine. Instead, feeling increasingly disoriented and adrift, she deliberately overdoses on sedatives.

Features: -a recognition of the impact of assigning labels to behaviors and to people -a focus on individual psychology rather than the social dynamics of large populations Not Features: -a search for the functional importance of a person's behavior in relation to the rest of the social group

The graph suggests that the death penalty has more staying power than Durkheim would have expected.

Examples: -one may expect the death penalty to entirely disappear -the ratio of organic to mechanical social sanctions will increase Not Examples: -the pendulum will swing back toward more use of mechanical social sanctions -a formal system of courts will be replaced by a system of information mediation -mechanical social sanctions will be eliminated.

as a rebel

1. Evan is late for school twice in one week. 2. The school principal publicly calls Evan a truant. 3. Evan's teachers and friends start to treat him as a troublemaker. 4. Evan comes to think of himself as a rule breaker. 5. Evan's behavior reflects his view of himself as a rule breaker.

Results: -an initial diagnosis of schizophrenia tended to color the medical staff's interpretation of patients' later behaviors -patients initially diagnosed with schizophrenia were kept under observation for an average of almost 3 weeks, despite behaving normally all that time Not Results: -patients diagnosed with schizophrenia tended to be treated with suspicion and hostility by both medical staff and other patients -after an initial diagnosis of schizophrenia, a change in behavior did not lead to any change in the official diagnosis

applied labeling theory to the question how deviance begins

offered a functionalist theory of the causes of suicide

applied social interactionist theory to the dynamics of total institutions

developed strain theory as a functionalist account of social deviance

1. rational calculation 2. costs 3. benefits 4.criminals 5. recidivism

Included: -kids playing on the sidewalk, keeping watch for a parent's return from work -a shopkeeper writing down the license plate numbers of cars driving too fast Not Included: -a gang member acting as lookout while someone else conducts a drug deal -a surveillance camera monitoring the alley behind a hardware store

1. volunteers were assigned roles as guards or prisoners and given corresponding uniforms and duties 2. a day pass without incident 3. the prisoners staged a revolt that lasted several days 4. guards subjected prisoners to various forms of humiliation and abuse 5. the experiment was ended after less than half its planned duration