Chapter 6--Society and Social Issues

Any transgression of socially established norms. usually consensus on serious normative violations--deserve most severe sanctions. Usually consensus on minor violations--deserve minor/no punishments. the in-between--relect society's changing values.

The violation of laws enacted by society

Social bonds; how well people relate to each other and get along on a day-to-day basis.

Social cohesion based on sameness

Social cohesion based on difference and interdependence of the parts

Those mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals.

Mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior.

The usually unexpressed but widely known rules of group membership; the unspoken rules of social life

How well you are intergrated into your social group or community

The number of rules guiding your daily life, and, more specificaly, what you can reasonable expect from the world on a day-to-day basis

Suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a social gorup

Suicide that occurs when one experiences too much social integration

A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little social regulation

Suicide that occurs as a result of insuffiecent social regulation

Suicide that occurs as a result of too much social regulation