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SOCIOLOGY A Down-to-Earth Approach 8/e SOCIOLOGY 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. James M. Henslin
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 2 “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant.” Howard Becker, 1966 What is Deviance?
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 3 Relative Deviance What is Deviant to Some is not Deviant to Others “Deviance” is Nonjudgmental Term What is Deviance?
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 4 Crime Violation of Norms as Laws Deviance Violation of Rules or Norms Stigma Blemishes on “Normal” Identity Deviance Terminology
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 5 No Norms - Social Chaos Social Control Group’s Formal and Informal Means of Enforcing Norms Norms Make Social Life Possible
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 6 Negative Sanctions Positive Sanctions Sanctions
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 7 Shaming is a Sanction Can Be Centerpiece of Public Ritual Degradation Ceremony Shaming and Degradation Ceremonies
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 8 Sociobiology Look for Answers Inside Individuals Genetic Predispositions Explanations of Deviance
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 9 Psychology Focuses on Abnormalities Within Individuals Personality Disorders Deviant Personalities Explanations of Deviance
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 10 Sociology Look for Answers Outside Individuals Social Class Explanations of Deviance
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 11 Families Friends, Neighbors Subculture Prison or Freedom? Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Differential Association Theory Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Differential Association Theory
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 12 Inner Controls Morality Conscience Religious Principles Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Control Theory Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Control Theory
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 13 Outer Controls Attachments Commitments Involvements Beliefs that Actions are Morally Wrong Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Control Theory Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Control Theory
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 14 Focuses on the Significance of Labels Labels Become Part of Self-Concept Propel Towards or Away from Deviance Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Labeling Theory Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Labeling Theory
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 15 Denial of Responsibility Denial of Injury Denial of a Victim Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Rejecting Labels Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Rejecting Labels
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 16 Condemnation of Condemners Appeal to Higher Loyalties Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Rejecting Labels Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Rejecting Labels
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 17 Embracing Labels—Outlaw Bikers The Power of Labels—Saints and Roughnecks Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Labeling Theory Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Labeling Theory
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 18 Clarifies Moral Boundaries and Affirms Norms Promotes Social Unity Promotes Social Change Functionalist Perspective Can Deviance Be Functional? Functionalist Perspective Can Deviance Be Functional?
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 19 Social Values Produce Deviance Cultural Goals Institutional Means Strain Leads to Anomie Functionalist Perspective Strain Theory Functionalist Perspective Strain Theory
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 20 Innovators Ritualism Retreatism Rebellion Functionalist Perspective Four Deviant Paths Functionalist Perspective Four Deviant Paths
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 21 Unequal Access to Institutional Means to Success Street Crime White-Collar Crime Gender and Crime Functionalist Perspective Illegitimate Opportunity Structures Functionalist Perspective Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 23 Class, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System Power and Inequality The Law as an Instrument of Oppression The Conflict Perspective
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 24 Street Crime and Prisons Reaction to Deviance
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 26 Recidivism Reaction to Deviance Street Crime and Prisons The Decline of Crime
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 28 Recidivism The Death Penalty Bias Reaction to Deviance Street Crime and Prisons The Decline of Crime
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Chapter 8:Deviance and Social Control Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2007 31 Legal Change Trouble with Statistics Medicalization of Deviance Neither Mental nor Illness? Homeless Mentally Ill Need for More Humane Approach Reaction to Deviance
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