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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Socialisation Please go to youtube – Steve Bassett (podcasts) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=68 Sw. JSSV 1 Ks

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

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

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. )

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Close-Knit Communities Informal social control:

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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