Social Control of Deviance Social Control of Deviance as Communicationas Communication

Tatiana V. ShipunovaTatiana V. Shipunova,, Dr. Sociology, Professor Dr. Sociology, Professor St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg State University

shtatspb@yandex.rushtatspb@yandex.ru

Social control of deviance as communicationis process and result of promotion of certain models, ideas,

discourses in a field of forming social norms and reacting on its violation in social communicative channels by different social actors. Being actualized in concrete time-space continuum these models, ideas, discourses establish rules, social norms of social interaction, samples of permitted and/or prohibited behavior of people and activity of social systems, as well as reaction on violation of permissions and/or prohibitions. Social control as communication proceeds in compliance with particularities of communicative processes and constantly get modifications affected by social practices and changing conditions of existence of social actors.

The main ideasThe main ideas1. Social control is a means of communication

2. Amount of social control agents is much bigger than it is generally agreed

3. Internet is modulator of meanings and narratives managing social reality

Social control is a means of communication

Макроуровень

Macro-Micro-Macro model of social control of deviance

The main control model; explicit and latent system-institutional effects (level of deviance, pressure in society, system violence, social exclusion etc.); existing system of social control institutions; means of control; borders of control, organisational specific etc.

Discourses of norm/deviance and social control; every-day practices and reaction on violations of norms and violators; frameworks and intensity of control; methods and ways of communication with violators of norms.

Micro-level

From macro-level by channels of the From macro-level by channels of the descending verticaldescending vertical communication communication

ideas of social order and borders of control of human behavior

justification of the state policy for deviants, suspected people;

definition of the concepts "good" /"bad", "norm" /"deviance" and, respectively, the social norms giving the chance of inclusion in social interactions in legitimate space;

rules of selection of punishable acts, ways of stigmatization of people and social groups, image of a deviants;

relation to the victims of crimes, etc.

are broadcastare broadcast

Horizontal communicationHorizontal communication at the micro-level at the micro-level proceeds in the context of discoursesproceeds in the context of discoursesDepending on position and/or status, role of social actor:

imperious/performing,

punishing/helping,

controlling / controlled,

producing deviance/victims, etc.

Discourses’ lines:

state,

scientific,

professional (subjects of formal and informal social control),

existential,

conventional,

receptive (objects of social control, i.e. people on whom this control is directed),

"third-party" (for example, migrants and/or foreigners, temporary living in a country).

Influence of micro-level on macro-level of social Influence of micro-level on macro-level of social control (control (ascending vertical communicationascending vertical communication):):

On condition of democratic communication there is a modification: the dominating control model; change of understanding of norm/deviance, expansion of social norms; obvious and latent system-institutional effects; developed system of social control institutes; methods, means, borders and intensity of social control, etc.

On condition of authoritative communication of modification of the dominating model of social control under the influence of micro-level interactions does not occur.

AMOUNT OF SOCIAL CONTROL AGENTS IS MUCH AMOUNT OF SOCIAL CONTROL AGENTS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN IT IS GENERALLY AGREEDBIGGER THAN IT IS GENERALLY AGREED"Traditional" subjects of social control: official (formal) social institutes: police, penal system, labor collective, social

services organizations, education system, etc., Informal institutes of control: family, church, civil initiatives, public organizations

(charitable, human rights, etc.), etc.

"Non-traditional" subjects of social control: various not deviant subcultures, natural cooperations of people (for example, neighbors’ community, friends), youth movements (political, leisure etc), new religious movements of "new age", deviant subcultures (from youth subcultures to criminal communities, gangs), etc.

"Non-traditional" subjects of social control also:

a) are social structures understood "in its most elemental meaning at least as referring to such rules (and resources)" (A. Giddens . The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration- Cambridge, 1984. P. 17.)

b) have the “sensorium", allowing "to react selectively to processes in the outside world, keeping the system specificity" (Antonovsky A.U. Space and time of communication and consciousness: Bourdieu vs. Lumann//Communicative rationality: epistemological approach. – M.: IFRAN, 2009. P.e 85.)

INTERNET IS MODULATOR OF MEANINGS AND INTERNET IS MODULATOR OF MEANINGS AND NARRATIVES MANAGING SOCIAL REALITYNARRATIVES MANAGING SOCIAL REALITY

(A)social Internet project is a set of the ideas, meanings, discourses, close to every-day practices of subjects of social interaction. They reflect people desire on change of behavior samples, values and advanced in virtual communications by means of social marketing strategies.

Orientation of projects:

negative

positive

neutral (misses the research field)

CONCLUSION *: (A)social projects strengthen meanings (variable ways of behavior, violation of norms, etc.), advance discourses, narratives which, being accepted by many users change social reality.

* the Conclusion is made on the basis of the research within the project "Using (social) marketing strategies in promotion of deviant behavior samples: analysis practices of virtual communication resources" (RGNF project No. 13-03-00011, under research supervision of T.V. Shipunova)

The ways of analysis of social The ways of analysis of social control as communication:control as communication: Cultural-symbolical: symbolical structure of social control of deviance; constructs

of norm/deviance, social control which developed in different discourses.

System-institutional: the system and organizational expenses connected with functioning of institutes of formal and informal social control of deviance; system and institutional effects of social control of deviance (obvious and latent); a role, a place, a social orientation and mechanisms of social control of deviance exercised by unspecialized subjects of social control (Interenet, civil initiatives, communities, incl. criminal, etc.).

Social-structural: interrelation of discourses of norm/deviance and social control of deviance with any type of every-day practices; specifics of realization of social control in routine professional activity of experts, reaction to deviance in everyday life (an ordinary discourse), perception of social control by "deviant" and "third-party" agents; strategy and tactics of social control applied in every-day practices, an explanation of need of their application; an explanation of reasons of deviance and relation to deviants in different discourses; ways of avoiding of social control of deviance (receptive discourse).

The author’s publications on the topicThe author’s publications on the topic::

1. Шипунова Т.В. Макро-микро-макро-модель социального контроля девиантности в конструктивистской перспективе: приглашение к дискуссии // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии № 2 (61), 2012. C. 157-173.

2. Шипунова Т.В. Девиантология: современные теоретико-методологические проблемы.– СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2012. (Монография).

3. Шипунова Т.В. Продвижение девиантных образцов поведения как (а)социальных проектов в виртуальной коммуникативной среде // Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии № 3 (68), Т. XVI. 2013. C. 138-153.

4. Шипунова Т.В. Интернет-проект “Гламур” в дискурсе потребления //Вестник С-Петерб. ун-та. Сер. 12. Вып. 2. 2014. С. 178-185.

5. Шипунова Т.В. Социальный контроль девиантности в постмодернистском обществе: телеологическо-функциональный подход //Преступность, девиантность и социальный контроль в эпоху постмодерна: Материалы международной научно-практической конференции, 2014. – СПб.: ИД «Алеф-Пресс», 2014. С. 359-365.