Agents Of Social Control Flashcards

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F and I agents?

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Formal and informal.

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Agents that have to actively enforcement rules and punishments

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Formal

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Agents that act to control whether people act defiantly or criminally through pressuring them with threats of ostecisation and labelling.

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Informal

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There’s 6 types of Deviance.

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  • Counterculture
  • Serial
  • Situational
  • Formal
  • Informal
  • Positive
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Example of situational Deviance

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Heroin use on the streets vs in a study about heroin at a university with permissions.

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Example of formal Deviance

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Theft

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Example of informal Deviance

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Bad table manners

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Example of serial device

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Serial killings

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Example of countercultural Deviance

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Edward Colston’s statue torn down.

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Example of positive Deviance

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The suffragettes.

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