Social Construction of Deviance
Primary Source: Goode,
Deviant Behavior, 11th Ed.
Social Construction
How is deviance conceptualized, defined, and represented? And how is this embodied or constituted?
Social Construction
How do audiences construct and react to what they consider wrongdoing?
Thomas Theorem:
Things we treat as real have real consequences
CONSTRUCTING DEVIANCE
STEP 1
STEP 1
Create categories of the acts, beliefs, and characteristics they've evaluated
CONSTRUCTING DEVIANCE
STEP 2
STEP 2
Put a good or bad spin on the categories
CONSTRUCTING DEVIANCE
STEP 3
STEP 3
Decide whether rule-violators will be punished
Social Control
Efforts to construct, and ensure conformity to, norms
NORMS
What are Norms?
Rules about what members of society should or should not do
SOCIALIZATION
How we learn the rules (norms)
Types of Social Control
TYPES
Internal
- via agents of socialization
- only partly successful
External (sanctions)
- restraint, punishment, force
- rewards
Informal Social Control
Interpersonal interactions
Unofficial
Sanctions flow from relationship
Both of these can operate at the same time
Informal Social Control
Formal Social Control
Law
Agents of criminal justice system
Not based on feelings
Sanctions from offices, not people
Person, Role, Projects completed
OUR TEAM
Person, Role, Projects completed
OUR TEAM
PROJECT
TIMELINE
Breaking Ground
Ceremony
Foundations
Completed
Facade
Completed
Project Opening
Ceremony
PRICING
NUMBER 2
NUMBER 3
NUMBER 1
STATISTIC 1
STATISTIC 2
STATISTIC 3