E1 P6 Deviance And crime Flashcards
Formal vs Informal Social deviance
Formal is breaking the law, informal is getting tattoos and piercings,
Social Deviance
Going against norms of the society you’re in
Labeling theory
Placing a judgement on someone based on one thing without all the facts
Stigma
Negative idea
Social control
Enforcing conformity, by law or social pressure.
Hegemony
Getting someone to think it’s in their best interests to do something when it is not. Socially powerful people do to this to the powerless
Social control both informal and formal
Laws to prevent actions
Stigma to condone actions
Ferguson bad boys and school to prison pipeline
Black kids being labeled as criminals very early and being pipelined into a life of crime and criminal stigmas
The new Jim Crow laws reading
Prisons and felons being treated like slaves essentially