Agents Of Social Control Flashcards
1
Q
F and I agents?
A
Formal and informal.
2
Q
Agents that have to actively enforcement rules and punishments
A
Formal
3
Q
Agents that act to control whether people act defiantly or criminally through pressuring them with threats of ostecisation and labelling.
A
Informal
4
Q
There’s 6 types of Deviance.
A
- Counterculture
- Serial
- Situational
- Formal
- Informal
- Positive
5
Q
Example of situational Deviance
A
Heroin use on the streets vs in a study about heroin at a university with permissions.
6
Q
Example of formal Deviance
A
Theft
7
Q
Example of informal Deviance
A
Bad table manners
8
Q
Example of serial device
A
Serial killings
9
Q
Example of countercultural Deviance
A
Edward Colston’s statue torn down.
10
Q
Example of positive Deviance
A
The suffragettes.
