Social_Control_And_Deviance

Social Control And Deviance Social Control Industrialized societies are made up of many competing groups, each with its own history of problems and with its own solutions. Each group also claims a unique identity, a way of life that distinguishes it from other groups in the same society, and its members share these ideas about the way the world is and ought to be. Each group has also developed norms that support its orientations to life. These norms, along with both formal and informal means of enforcing them, constitute a system of social control. Thus, because they participate in the same general culture, the groups in a pluralistic society agree on many things; yet due to their particular histories, they may differ sharply on many others - to the extent that what one group may consider right, another may consider wrong. Up to this point in analysis, functionalists and conflict theorists are in basic agreement about social control. But now they diverge. Functionalism and Social Control Functionalists stress how the various segments of the population in a pluralistic society coexist. As each enforces its own norms on its members, the group can attain a more or less balanced state. Although tensions society, social, deviance, norms, groups, group, people, control, power, others, one, life, example, criminals, biological, behavior, become, within, sociologists, factors, explanations, each, deviant, conflict, another, various, theorists, says, same, make, interests, individuals, deviants, depend, crimes