DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL

Assignment

INSTRUCTIONS: write a brief summary on the following chapter.

Read Chapter 8 DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL on page 196 from your text book
(10th Edition) and provide your answer accordingly. Your answer should not exceed more
than 200 words.
Your summary must include the following theories:

1. Differential Association Theory:  Interactions with others, individuals learn

the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior.
The differential association theory is the most talked about of the
learning theories of deviance
Families involved in crime may set their children on a lawbreaking path.
2. Control Theory:
a) Inner Controls
 Morality
 Conscience
 Religious Principles
b) Outer Controls
1. Attachment measures our connections to others.
2. Commitment refers to the investments we make in the community.
3. Similarly, levels of involvement, or participation in socially legitimate activities, lessen a
person’s likelihood of deviance.
4. The final bond, belief, is an agreement on common values in society. If a person views
social values as beliefs, he or she will conform to them.
3.Labeling Theory: primary deviance
 Focuses on the Significance of Labels
 Labels Become Part of Self-Concept
 Propel(push) Towards or Away from Deviance