Syg2000 uf Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Formal Sanctions - ANSWER mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior; sanctions are formal, overt "expressions of official group sentiment" Informal Social Sanctions - ANSWER the usually unexpressed but widely know rules of group membership; unspoken rules of social life; unwritten rules of social life; we are all simultaneously enforcing the rules of society and having them enforced upon us; We can recognize good behavior and sanction bad behavio...