CSS 103: Deviant Behaviours and Social Control

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

1. explain the nature, concept and sources of deviance;
2. discuss various theories of deviance and social control;
3. identify the relationships between power, deviance, and social control; and
4. link the interconnections between crime, deviance, crime, social control and security.

Course Contents

Normative bases of society. Socialisation and social control. Definitions of deviance. Types of deviance behaviour. Similarities and differences between deviant and criminal behaviours. Social construction and definition of deviance, labelling and stigmatisation of deviance. Theoretical perspectives on deviance. Role of inequality, institutions, lifestyles, culture, gender, and identities in definitions and control of deviance. Formal and informal social control of deviance.