Objective Continuum
Focus on the deviant act itself
Positivist interests
Subjective Continuum
Perceptions and reactions to deviance
Subjectivist interests
Social Typing Process
Description –> Evaluation –> Prescription
Informal Social Control
Everyday social interactions
Formal Social Control
At the hands of an institution or organization
Preventative Social Control
Preventing a deviant act in the first place
Retroactive Social Control
Following a deviant act
Moral Entrepreneurs
Media
Government
Religious Groups
Science
Deviance Dance
Any specific person, action or characteristic that has been socially typed as deviant will have differing points of view, debate, and resistance