1) Every culture and society has distinctive norms governing what is called appropriate behavior.
2) In organizations workers must cope with a formal system of rules and regulations.
3) Without thinking we follow the day-to-day rules at our jobs.
4) Techniques for social control can be viewed on both the group and the society level
5) The sanctions used to encourage conformity and obedience - and to discourage violation of social norms - are carried out through informal and formal social control.
6) Informal social control is used by people casually
7) Formal social control is carried out by authorized agents
8)Sociologists have become increasingly interested in the creation of laws as a social process.
9)In their view, law is not merely a static body of rules handed down from generation to generation.
10) Being late for class is categorized as a deviant act.
11) Deviance involves the violation of group norms including not only criminal behavior but also many actions not subject to prosecution.
12) Standards of deviance vary from one group, society or culture to another.
13) In our society it is generally acceptable to sing along at a rock or folk concert, but not at the opera
14) Sociologists classify crimes in terms of how they are committed and how the offenses are viewed by society.
15) Index crimes consists of those serious offenses that people think of when they express concern about the nation's crime problems
16) Many people make a career of illegal activities.
17) Organized crime refers to the work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises.
18) Certain crimes are committed by «respectable» people in the course of their daily business activities
19) There is a wide variety of offenses that are classified as white-collar crimes
20) In white-collar or index crimes, people's economic or personal well-being is endangered against their will or without their knowledge.