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Dr Jack's Loft  ©2004

        Chapter 4 - DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 
I. Social Control

A. Social control is activated through:
  1.conformity
  2.obediance
        "Americans do not like obedience!"
  3. collateral
  4. Why social control?
B.Milgram's Experiment
  1.experimenter
  2."teacher" (con)
  3.learner (dupe or experimental subject)
  4.shock generator (fake)
  5. script applied to learner
    a. 150  cry out
    b. 270 agony
    c. 350 silent
  6. 2/3s "teachers" continued the experiment
  7. Milgram felt they continued because ...
      
      (white coat iconic of authority)

II. Informal and Formal Social Control
A. Informal Procedures and Means

  1. warning
  2. penalty
  3.ignoring 

B. Formal

C. Laws of Behaviour

D. socialization   

    

III.  DEVIANCY
A. apart from the norm

B. Dr Jack's Model

 


C. Types of Deviancy
  1. relative
  
  2. absolute

  3. zB: "abortion"

D. labeling

E. Functionalist position on deviancy

  1. Durkheim, functionalism and deviancy

  2. Robert K. Merton and deviancy

F. Interactionalist position on deviancy

  1. cultural transmission

G. Conflict Theory position on deviancy

  1. society in the interests of the powerful

  2. feminists stress economic interests

H. Crime

  1. Dr Jack's Model

  2. professional crime

  3. organized crime

  4. white-collar crime

  5. "victimless crimes"

  6. recent decrease in crime

 

IV. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 A. definition:

B. Problem Statement
  1. operational definition

C.  Classical Experimenta Design 
      1. hypothesis
      2. dependent variable
      3. independent variable
      4. problem with human subjects

D. Collecting Data
  1. sampling
  2. random sample
  3. validity
  4. reliability
E. Research Designs
  1. surveys
  2. ethnography
  3. participant observation

F. EXPERIMENT DESIGN and The Hawthorne Studies:

 

 

 

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