Deviance & Social Control Ch. 7.1

Deviance Behavior that departs from societal or group norms: Behavior that departs from societal or group norms: range from criminal behavior to wearing too much makeup range from criminal behavior to wearing too much makeup can vary from group to group, society to society can vary from group to group, society to society may be positive or negative may be positive or negative

negative deviance  involves behavior that underconforms to accepted norms negative deviance  involves behavior that underconforms to accepted norms positive deviance  involves behavior that overconforms to social expectations (perfectionist) positive deviance  involves behavior that overconforms to social expectations (perfectionist) Ex: society thinks you should be thin- negative=overweight positive=anorexic Ex: society thinks you should be thin- negative=overweight positive=anorexic deviant  a person who breaks significant societal or group norms deviant  a person who breaks significant societal or group norms

Social Control Ways to encourage conformity to societies norms: Ways to encourage conformity to societies norms: makes things predictablemakes things predictable stopping for red lightsstopping for red lights Internal Social Control Internal Social Control lines within the individual – doing something because it is the right thing to do or not doing something because it is the wrong thing to dolines within the individual – doing something because it is the right thing to do or not doing something because it is the wrong thing to do External Social Control External Social Control based on social sanctions  rewards or punishments that encourage conformity to social normsbased on social sanctions  rewards or punishments that encourage conformity to social norms not everyone follows all the rules all the timenot everyone follows all the rules all the time

Assignment: pg. 207 #1-3 Write the question and answer Case Studies “Murder Among the Cheyenne”- pg. 208 questions Thinking it Over “Saints vs. Roughnecks”- pgs , questions #1&2