Monday, November 3, 20147.1 The Social Organization of Deviance !!Social Structure!! - An organized pattern of behavior that governs people's relationships within a society. !! ! -Structure makes life orderly and predictable... for better or for worse!! - Types of structure include: statuses/roles, groups, organizations, and institutions!! - Social structures are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals.!!! *EXAMPLES: !! ! 1.Status!! ! 2. Primary Groups:!! ! ! -Intimate, face to face, long term groups we belong to!! ! 3. Formal Organizations:!! ! ! - Highly structured, bureaucratic, codified, relates to secondary groups !! ! 4. Secondary Groups:!! ! ! - Less intimate, limited relationships, about the goal at hand, groups that!! ! ! come together just to complete a task, schools, teams, places of!! ! ! employment !! ! 5. Institutions:!! ! ! - Most macro level of these patterns, students/instructors all belong to!! ! ! secondary group of CU which belong to the institution of "education",!! ! ! science, military, criminal justice, family!!Groups organizations and Institutions:!! *Recall the metaphors of social interactions!! ! - Groups are out looking glass, teammates and audience!! ! - Organizations are the field we play upon and the stage upon which we perform!! ! - Institutions are similarities that make the games and performances!! ! recognizable from time to time, place to place and from group to group!!Key Concept: Ideal Types:!! Ideal Types - general elements that describe a social phenomenon in the abstract rather than every case!! - You social reality will vary ( to greater and lesser extents) with the ideal type description!!!! " An idea type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those onesidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct..." Max Webber The Methodology of the Social Sciences !!!!!!1Monday, November 3, 2014!Social Organization of Deviance:!! - The social organization (or structure) of deviance is about social groups (primary and formal), and the institutionalization (patterning) of deviance!! - Varies along several dimensions:!! ! 1. Number and members!! ! 2. Task specialization/ division of labor!! ! 3. Stratification/ concentration of authority!! ! 4. Organization sophistication!! ! 5. Resources commanded / support provided to members!! ! 6. Institutionalization of norms, values, lore, and other elements of (sub)culture!!!*Mutual Association: Do they know people who do the same things, confide in people, etc?!*Mutual Participation: Do they require co-participation in order to achieve deviant acts?!*Elaborate Division of Labor: Do they complex hierarch or authority and many different roles?!*Extended Organization of Time and Space: Do they work over dist. and last a long pd of time?!!*Associational FormMutual AssociationMutual ParticipationElaborate Division of LaborExtended Oraganization of Time and SpaceLonersNoNoNoNoColleaguesYesNoNoNoPeersYesYesNoNoCrewsYesYesYesNoFormal