1. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20051 Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach 7/e James M. Henslin Chapter Eight: Deviance and Social Control James M. Henslin Chapter Eight: Deviance and Social Control This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any images; any rental, lease, or lending of the program.

2. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20052 “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” Howard Becker, 1966 What is Deviance?

3. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20053  Relative Deviance  What is Deviant to Some is not Deviant to Others  “Deviance” is Nonjudgmental Term What is Deviance?

4. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20054  Deviance  Violation of Rules or Norms  Crime  Violation of Norms as Laws  Stigma  Blemishes on “Normal” Identity Deviance Terminology

5. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20055  Social Order  Group’s Usual Social Arrangement  Social Control  Group’s Formal and Informal Means of Enforcing Norms Deviance Terminology

6. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20056  Negative Sanctions  Positive Sanctions Sanctions

7. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20057  Shaming is a Sanction  Can Be Centerpiece of Public Ritual  Degradation Ceremony Shaming and Degradation Ceremonies

8. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20058  Sociology  Look for Answers Outside Individuals  Social Class  Sociobiology  Look for Answers Inside Individuals  Genetic Predispositions Explanations of Deviance

9. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 20059  Psychology  Focuses on Abnormalities Within Individuals  Personality Disorders  Deviant Personalities Explanations of Deviance

10. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200510  Families  Friends, Neighbors  Subculture  Prison or Freedom? Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Differential Association Theory

11. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200511  Inner Controls  Morality  Conscience  Religious Principles Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Control Theory

12. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200512  Outer Controls  Attachments  Commitments  Involvements  Beliefs that Actions are Morally Wrong Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Control Theory

13. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200513  Focuses on the Significance of Labels  Labels Become Part of Self-Concept  Propel Towards or Away from Deviance Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Labeling Theory

14. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200514  Denial of Responsibility  Denial of Injury  Denial of a Victim Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Rejecting Labels

15. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200515  Condemnation of Condemners  Appeal to Higher Loyalties Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Rejecting Labels

16. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200516  Embracing Labels—Outlaw Bikers  The Power of Labels—Saints and Roughnecks Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Labeling Theory

17. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200517  Clarifies Moral Boundaries and Affirms Norms  Promotes Social Unity  Promotes Social Change Functionalist Perspective Can Deviance Be Functional?

18. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200518  Social Values Produce Deviance  Cultural Goals  Institutional Means  Strain Leads to Anomie Functionalist Perspective Strain Theory

19. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200519  Innovators  Ritualism  Retreatism  Rebellion Functionalist Perspective Four Deviant Paths

20. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200520  Unequal Access to Institutional Means to Success  Street Crime  White-Collar Crime  Gender and Crime Functionalist Perspective Illegitimate Opportunity Structures

21. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200521  Street Crime and Prisons  The Decline of Crime  Recidivism  The Death Penalty Bias Reaction to Deviance

22. Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 200522  Legal Change  Medicalization of Deviance  Neither Mental nor Illness?  Homeless Mentally Ill  Need for More Humane Approach Reaction to Deviance