1. RECAP!! Check your understanding of Crime and Deviance…Kahoot Quiz
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RECAP!! Check your understanding of Crime and Deviance…Kahoot Quiz

2. What is a crime?
Actions which are against the law, e.g. theft, assault, murder, hate crime, tax evasion (white collar crime)

3. What is deviance?
Deviance means actions which break social norms of society.

4. In summary: Crime and Deviance are not the same thing
In summary: Crime and Deviance are not the same thing. However, most crimes are seen as deviant, e.g. Murder is both criminal and deviant.

5. Social construction of crime and deviance
Changes over time and varies from place to place
For example Polygamy, which refers to marrying more than one person. Is currently legal in Kenya. This shows that deviance can vary from place to place.

6. Lesson 14: Social Control
Learning Aim: To understand how deviance is controlled at an informal and formal level
GCSE Sociology – Wednesday 8th March 2017

8. Learning Objectives…
Define and give an example of the term sanctions (positive and negative)
To explain, using an example, the term agencies of informal social control

9. How does society ensure that people acquire its culture
How does society ensure that people acquire its culture? You need to think back to Unit 1…

10. Socialisation Please go to youtube – Steve Bassett (podcasts)

11. How does society ensure that people conform to its culture, e. g
How does society ensure that people conform to its culture, e.g. How is social order kept?

12. Social norms are in place to keep social order
Social norms are in place to keep social order. They are a set of unwritten rules.

13. People who break social norms may receive sanctions from other people for doing so. What is a sanction? (you have studied this in unit 1.)

14. Sanctions
A sanction is a reward of punishment used to make people act as you wish. Sanctions can be either positive or negative.

15. A positive sanction could be to encourage children to repeat positive behaviour through praise/smiles/presents A negative sanction (punishment). If children act in a way that is not considered acceptable, they may be punished.

16. So these guys from last lesson…
May receive negative sanctions in the form of comments made to them or raised eye brows!

17. Social Control
Social control is the maintenance of social order (formal and informal)

18. Informal Social Control
The first way of making people behave before more official agencies take over

19. Socialisation Social norms
Social control
Informal Social Control Sanctions
Formal Social Control

20. Agencies of informal social control
Family/Friends
Media
Agencies of informal social control
Close knit communities
Education

21. Close-Knit Communities - Informal social control:

22. Close-knit communities
Communities – means groups of people living in a neighbourhood or a group of people with a shared interest Close-knit communities – communities that have strong links – possibly with friends and family.

23. What we do on holiday…
People often act differently on holiday. Feeling free to break social norms. They may do things that they would never do in their home town.

24. Family – Informal Social Control
Important in controlling its own members. Sanctions may include being left out of the family, being told off, losing respect

25. Education – Informal Social Control
How might education play a role in social control?
Teachers – enforcing and punishing those students who break social norms – uniform, attendance or lateness
Permanent exclusion – begins to become more of a formal agent of social control

26. Social Order Social Control Social Norms
e.g. Take your litter home, because other people do
Informal social control
Sanctions – positive and negative
Formal social control

27. Stretch and challenge
What would society be like if there were no families, schools or communities.
How would you keep order in society? Could you invent a different institution to act as an informal agent of social control?

28. Next lesson…