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In this chapter,you should learn to do the following:
1. Develop an idea of how deviant acts are categorized by sociological research on deviancy.
2. Understand the connection between the symbolic interactionist perspective and the theory of social construction.
3. Comprehend how and why Durkheim theorized deviance and crime as functional for human societies.
4. Distinguish between individual explanations and social explanations for crime and deviant behaviour.
5. Understand how Elijah Anderson applied two social explanations simultaneously in his research on inner city crime and deviance.
6. Appreciate how contemporary sociologists have extended the body of theory related to the role of social context in explaining criminal or deviant behaviour with learning, control, and labelling theory.
7. Differentiate between primary and secondary acts of deviance under the labelling theory.
8. Review experiments that show how deviant behaviours are more likely and more severe in certain social settings.
9. Develop an understanding of the role of punishment in human societies