Sociology › Section G · Deviance, crime, and social control › Topic G.1
Deviance and social control
Every group has rules, and every group has members who break them. Sociologists ask who decides what counts as rule-breaking, how groups push people back into line, and why some deviance turns out to be useful.
In this topic
- Deviance in everyday life
- Setting, audience and actor
- Deviance changes over time
- Deviance and crime
- Social control and sanctions
- Worked example: classifying sanctions
- Stigma
- Medicalisation
- Durkheim: deviance is normal
- Worked example: paint on a wall
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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