A final assignment for the course "Deviancy & Social Control". This presentation is a integrative/interdisciplinary purview of Social Psychology and the subject matter of Deviancy & Social Control. How Social Psychology can benefit from the knowledge gained in "Deviancy & Social Control.

1. The Social Psychologist with
Knowledge about Deviancy and
Social Control:
Jay Amari Hayes
SC331 Deviancy & Social Control
Providing a More Holistic Orientation in
Understanding the Influences of Human Behavior

2. Social Psychology and the
Social Psychologist
• Defining the Field of Social Psychology
• The Subject Matter Explored
• Careers for Social Psychologists
• Criticisms & Faults within the Field
o Question Comprehensiveness and Interconnectivity
o Too Subjective
o Low Success in Applying Theories to Eradicate Social
Injustices Such as Discrimination and Prejudice

3. Deviancy & Social
Control
• Deviancy as a Social Construction
• Interactional Paradigm (a "Choice")
o Theory of Office
• Institutional Career
o Master Status
• Agents of Social Control
• Theories and Perspectives
o Subject Matter

4. The Holistic Social Psychologist
• In Terms of Sociality:
o Comprehensive Knowledge
o Interconnectivity
o New View in Solving Issues of Prejudice and
Discrimination

5. Comprehensiveness and
Interconnectivity
• Theories and Concepts in Teachings Have
Widespread Applicability
o Displays Comprehensiveness
o By Nature is Interconnected Because of
Applicability
• Illustration:
o Brown and "The Professional Ex"
o Goode and "War on Drugs"

6. Stigma Discussed within
the Study of
Deviancy & Social Control
• Sociologist, Erving Goffman
• Discrepancy Between Social and Actual Identity
o Issues in need to Manage Stigmatizing Information
• Stigma Symbols - Stigmatized Despite
Concealment
o is Reflexive; and
o is Embodied
• Manipulating Symbols to Manage Stigma

7. Digesting Stigma, What it
Means for a Social
Psychologist
•Reliability in Stigma
•Critical of Actual Identities for Self-
interested Reasons
•Stigma is Not the End Root

8. Conclusion
• Social Psychology is operational yet
restrictive and not without its faults and
criticisms
• Teachings in Deviancy & Social Control can
aid Social Psychologists in improving society
• Cannot expect to fully grasp how society
impacts the "social self" and influences
human behavior without a more holistic and
eclectic approach in scholarship