![]() ![]() The objectives that are pillars to this textbook include: (1)to enable students have a better understanding of different theories of deviance and social control (2) to discuss major strategies that society uses to control its members in different social settings (3) to make students have a better understanding of different deviant behaviours like alcoholism, drug abuse, mental disorder, etc (4) to discuss the consequence of deviance in society (negative and positive) and (5) to explore forms of deviance and how society attempts to manage and control them. Deviance or the sociology of deviance 1 2 explores the actions and/or behaviors that violate social norms across formally enacted rules (e.g., crime) 3 as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g. Therefore, here is the need to prepare an appropriate independent course textbook for sociology of deviance that can help students grasp a more clarified understanding of the subject matter of sociology of deviance. In addition, topics of sociology of deviance have been intermingled with those subject matters familiar in criminology irrespective of the reality that deviance and crime are not always overlapping concepts, as it is discussed under chapter one. However, the course has so far been given without any organized teaching material as well as available reference books at University of Gondar. The main reason that drives my department delivering this course is the interest of making sociology students aware of the nature of deviation from social norms and values and their societal and individuals reactions. ![]() ![]() Functionalists also seek to explain deviant subcultures - groups whose. Sociology of Deviance is one of those advanced course given in the department of sociology. They are interested in the causes of deviance, such as blocked opportunities to achieve. The main aim of prepar ing this book was to provide students of sociology and other related disciplines with an organized knowledge of the course. This teaching material for the course Sociology of Deviance and Social Control has been prepared by Semalegne Kendie upon the approval of the first draft by the department council. ![]()
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