Social Control Theory

Deviance is the recognized violations of cultural norms. Deviance can occur from something minor to something major. For instance, a traffic violation could be as a murder or an accident to the death. In terms of deviance, symbolic interactionism is the way that interpersonal relationships and everyday interactions shape definitions of deviance, according to Ferries and Stein. Additionally, for sociologist, all human are deviance as people violate the rules all the time. Erving Goffman used a term 'Stigma' to define the social interactionist as an attribute, behavior or reputation which is socially detachment in a particular way on deviance. This perspective expanded to the three types of theories: the differential association, control theory,

Eventually, he get use to smoke from time to time. On the other hand, control theory is refer to people who restrain from a deviant behavior. For Walter Reckless, humans have two control systems to against their desire to deviate social norms. The two control is inner and outer control. An inner control is internalized thought process as a sense of morality, conscience, or religious beliefs. For example, As People will not like to get punishment, they seem to prevent to create something bad deeds. An outer control is groups that encourage us not to deviate. The groups can be members of family, teacher, friends, and more. On theory of Travis Hirschi, he identify four elements of attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief that tend to more effective inner controls. For labeling theory, Howard Becker advocated the labels are given by people to affect their own or others' perception to them. There is a none of things has labels until people name or label them. Edwin Lemert expanded the labeling theory into two types of deviances: primary deviance and secondary deviance. The Primary deviance is the act that provokes a little reaction without intended to against the social