From revision sessions

• Crime is against the law
• Denians is frowned upon
• Informal


  Like an activity etc.
• Formal


  Governed by the government
• The police do important and sometimes unpleasant jobs
• Ex-tolerance policing


  Acts as a deterrent to stop larger crimes
• Community policing


  Bonds with the public to stop crime
• Functionalist view on police

  • See police as positive
• Marxist view on police

  • Disagree and raise questions on whether policing actually benefits society
• The role of the courts is to socialize the public and create sanctions
• Functionalist view on courts

  • See courts as positive
• Marxist view on courts

  • Say courts control the working class
• Concern that women and ethnic minorities don't get represented by judges
• Population growth


  Leads to more crime
• Conviction rates are a concern
• Poorer people are seen as weaker so they are targeted by the rich
• Marxist view on victim rate

  • Caused by capitalism
• New Right view on victim rate

  • Caused by the culture of poverty
• Criminal subculture includes thrill-seeking and consumerism to generate money
• Young people's crimes can be more visible and they have more chances to commit crime
• Elderly people are more worried about crime
• "Functionalist, Marxist, and Feminist views on education"

  26/1/24
• Conflict versus consensus debate on stratification
• Maths believe in equality through chances and exploitation by men
• One of the key debates is about gender equality
• Strength of the Marchew
• "Crime = Against the law. Deviance = Against social norms"

  23/2/24
• Social construction is a concept or category that has socially and culturally mediated meaning
• What is social control: The ways that society betters us to enhance and follow the norms and values
• Wheel of Power & Privilege

  Various categories related to power and privilege
• Citizenship


  Categories related to citizenship
• Education


  Categories related to education
• Informal social control


  • Help prevent anti-social behaviour by the use of positive and negative sanctions
• Wheel of Power & Privilege

  • Gender
  • Non-English
  • Monolingual
  • Non-binary
  • Citizenship
  • 1st gen immigrant
  • Skin Color
  • Dark
  • Marginalised
  • Education
  • Formal elementary education
  • High school
  • Cisgender woman
  • Learned English
  • Middle class
  • 2nd gen citizen
  • English
  • Rich
  • Different
  • Had right secondary education
  • Noble
  • Power
  • Sheltered own renting property
  • Overage slim post some bodied disability
  • Heterosexual
  • Ability
  • Gay man
  • Typical vergence
  • Robust stable mostly significant neurodivergent
  • Wealth
  • Poor
  • Housing
  • Homeless
  • Large vulnerable
  • Body Size Mental Health
  • Diversity
• Open Society movement (greely) up or down the stat
• Apartheid - South Africa C
• Functionalist new


  1. All roles must be filled

  2. Necessary training

  3. Roles must be performed well

  4. Rewards for hard work
• Need for motivation in society
• Not all jobs are rewarded as they should
• Equality, social stratification, functionalist sciences