Chapter 6 Essentials Of Sociology

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Deviance

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People seen as violating norms.

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What is Relative in this Chapter?

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Deviance

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Social Control

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an attempt to gain conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group. Formal and Informal means of enforcing norms.

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Deviant with Sociobiology

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Genetics predisposition with people that lead to devient behavior

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Deviant with Psychology

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Focus on abnoralities with in the individual

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Street Crimes

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Acts such as mugging, rate and burlary

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Deviant with BioSocial/Sociobiology

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Stresses that deviant behavior does not depend on genes alone, but our inherited propensites are modified and stimulated by our enviorment.

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Personality Disorder

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Deviating individuals have deviating personalities

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Deviant with Sociology

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Search for factors outside the indiviual

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Crime

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Violation of rules

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Stigma

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Characteristics that discredit peopleto be considered devient. Example: Facial birthmarks, big nose or ears (apperance)

or Blindess, deafness, handicap (ability)

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Norms

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Makes social life possible

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Social Order

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A groups customary social arrangments

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Symbolic Interactionists Perspectives for Deviance:

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Different Association Theory,

Control Theory,

Labeling Theory

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Different Association Theory

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From the different groups we associate with, we learn to deviate from or conform to society norms.

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Control Theory

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Stresses that two control systems work against our motivations to deviate: Inner controls and Outter Controls.

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Inner Controls

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Internalized morality-- Councious, religious principles, idea of rights and wrongs.

Cause's:

Attacments

Commitments,

Involvements,

and Beliefs

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Outter Controls

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Consists of people-- Such as family, friends, and police.

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Labeling Theory

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Focuses on the significances of reputations, how they help set us on paths that propel us into deviance or that divert us away from it.

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Techniques of neatralization:

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To reject label's; resist negative Labels:

1.) Denial of Responsability

2.) Denail of injury

3.) Denial of victim

4.) Condemnation of the condemners

5.) Appeal to higher loyalties

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Degradion Ceremony

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Extreme form of shaming

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Functionlists Say:

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Deviance contrivutes to spcial order in these 3 ways:

1.) Deviance clarifies moral boundaries and affirms norms

2.) Deviance encourages social unity

3.) Deviance promotes social change

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Strain Theory

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Frustration people feel when norms seem to be getting you nowhere.

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Anomie

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A sense of normlessness

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Culture Goals

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Usually possesions, wealth and prestige

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Instituionalized Means

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Legitimate ways to reach these goals

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Four Deviant Paths

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1.) Innovation

2.) Ritualism

3.) Retratism

4.) Rebellion

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Illegitimate Opportunity Structure

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An alternative door to success opens

Example: possible Street Crime.

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White Collar Crimes

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Refers to crimes that peopel of respectable and high social status commit in the cource of their occupations.

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Corporate Crimes

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Executives violating the law in order to benifit their corporation

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Criminal Justice System

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The police, courts, and prisions that deal with people who are accused of having committed crimes

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Conflict Theorists:

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Stress that the power elite develope the legal system, which is used to stabilize the social order.

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Recidivism Rate

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The percenage of formal prisioners that are re-arrested

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Capital Punishment

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Dealth Penalthy

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Medicalization of deviance

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Deviance, including crime, is a sign of mental sickness