Social Control and Deviance, Slides of Social Theory

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Journal 3/4 (B Day 3/5)

• What is a deviant behavior or movement that you

think is beneficial to society? Explain

Unit 5: Social Control and Deviance

Table of Contents

1. Table of Contents
2. Social Control Notes
3. Sanctions Table
4. Video: Skin Whitening
5. Deviance Notes
6. Explaining Deviance: Functionalist Perspective Notes
7. Video: 40 Years of Isolation
8. Explaining Deviance: Conflict Perspective Notes
9. Social Control and Deviance Worksheet
10. Debtor’s Prison Video Response
11. Explaining Deviance/Conformity in Mean Girls

Interactionist Perspective

• Interaction among individuals influences deviance Interactionists have proposed three major explanations for deviance
• Control Theory
• Cultural Transmission Theory
• Labeling Theory

Control Theory

• Control theory explains deviance as a natural occurrence
• Control theorists are interested in why people conform rather than

the causes of deviance

Control Theory

• Those who have weak ties to the community are likely to commit deviant acts

Control Theory

• Communities in which most members have strong social bonds will have lower rates of deviance because community members are able to exert stronger social control over those who deviate

Control Theory

• Criminologist Travis Hirschi suggests that conformity is the result of strong self-control.
• Children may develop more self-control if their parents punish them for deviant acts and reward them for conformity

Cultural Transmission Theory

• Cultural Transmission Theory explains deviance as a behavior learned through interaction with others
• However, in interactions among individuals engaging in deviance, the norms and values being transmitted are deviant behaviors

Cultural Transmission Theory

• Cultural Transmission Theory

views all individuals as

conformists

• The deviant individual conforms to norms that are not accepted by the larger community
• The nondeviant conforms to socially accepted norms.

Cultural Transmission Theory

• Some people show strong commitment to society’s norms yet still engage in deviance
• Through techniques of neutralization, people suspend their moral beliefs
• These techniques are learned through social interaction
  • Denying responsibility, denying injury, denying the victim, condemning the authorities, and appealing to higher loyalties

Labeling Theory

• Labeling theory focuses on how individuals come to be identified as deviant
• All people commit deviant acts, yet not everyone is labeled as deviant
• Two types of deviance
  • Primary and Secondary Deviance

Labeling Theory

Primary Deviance

• The occasional violation of norms
• Individuals who commit acts of deviance do not see themselves as deviant and neither does society

Labeling Theory

• Once someone is labeled as deviant, people judge their actions based on that label
• The deviant label often restricts an individual’s options and forces them into a deviant lifestyle

Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System

• Watch: https://youtu.be/RIghbrn5yfI

Respond to the following question in 2 paragraphs

• How can you use the conflict perspective to explain

the deviance shown in the video?