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Each individual is born into a socially-organized network that both teaches and requires behavior and conforming beliefs

most part, individuals do not feel or recognize these coercive forces, and may attribute their choices and beliefs to internal processes

oercive influence of social organization on our morality and behavior both by describing what we are born into

e external is necessarily primary to the existence of an individual belief

born into familie

onstrained in every respect by the organization of law

ustoms of the societies in which we live. The businessman who tries to conduct business outside of the organized economy will fail

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eligious leaders teach us what to believe and what to think about right and wrong

4Similarly, the lack of strongly aligned family structures or political structure signals a dangerous lack of integration.

challenges the view held by psychologists of his time, who maintained that suicide could be explained by individual psychological characteristic

This pursuit of knowledge, however, is not the cause of suicide rates to rise. Rather, it signals a lack of integration of the religious society’s norms and values.

belongs to a weakly cohesive society, and experiences a change in regulation, usually during a period of rapid change or crisis.

or a choice

s he describes, for society to regulate individuals’ cohesion into the society, “the passions first must be limited” (248). This is usually done with an establishment of social codes, laws and rules.

Anomic suicide

either integrated nor regulate

e wants sociology to be more scientific and move from the realm of subjectivity to objectivity

primacy of the “social fact.

Anomic Suicide

governments,

media

family

Durkheim argued that deviance, especially extreme forms are functional in that they challenge and offend the established norms in the larger collective conscience.

deviance reaffirms norms when the deviants are punished;

promotes solidarit

clear contrasting point of comparison

stimulates social change.

Extreme deviance does make us consider “normal” behavior on the personal and larger social level.

But, what if this distribution was not an indicat8ion of test scores, but rather the frequency of times potential roommates stole food from the private stashes of previous roommates? You’d clearly want a score closer to 0 than 80.

s homosexuality deviant or normal?”

ethnocentrism tends to burn cross-cultural bridges

shifting values.

ontributed to higher or lower levels of trust over time.

The point of this story is that in most social groups a beat down would be considered deviant. In a gang it’s very much normal. Yet, in this situation, not beating him down was deviant within his gang, yet a wise choice.

Absolutist Perspective claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places.

Normative Perspective claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time

Reactive Perspective claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws

Stigma

Conformity

“random act of senseless kindness”

legal and normal

complies with group norms yet breaks the law, it’s called crime.

normal crime.

iolates norms and breaks the law, then it’s Deviant and Criminal behavior

issues of power and powerlessness. It’s about who has the power and how they attempt to force their values and rules upon those who don’t have it.

remember that Anomie is a state of social normlessness which occurs when our lives or society has vague norms)

disproportionately high level of non-whites who ended up among the 2006 1,570,861 incarcerated members of society

Labeling Theory claims

majority of US prisoners have been in prison before (perhaps 60-80%

Phrenology is an outdated scientific approach of studying the shape and characteristics of the skull.

White-Collar Crimes are crimes committed by persons of respectable and high social status committed in the course of their occupations.

Street Crimes are crimes

Organized Crime

Hate Crimes

Norm is a set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status.

Look at the diagram below.

Is a mean of 80 good or desirable?

Values also vary between groups

An absolutists would probably fall among the 1 in 4 who feel that abortion is always wrong, because it is an unacceptable act. A normative individual would consider the circumstances (rape, incest, diagnoses, or health of mother) while a reactive would consider the legality of abortion.

Attachments

Commitment

Involvement

Belief

Negative Sanctions are punishments or negative reactions toward deviance. Positive Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior

Table 5. Robert Merton’s Five Goal—Means Gap Coping Strategies*** 1.