Deviance

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What are the 3 Perspectives on Deviance?

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1. Absolutist

2. Relativist

3. Social Power

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Absolutist

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Belief that there is definitely right and wrong.

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Relativist

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Belief the what is right and wrong depends on the society in which it is practiced.

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What are the three types of norms?

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1. Folk ways

2. Mores

3. Laws

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Folk ways

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Norm for the everyday behavior that people follow for convenience or tradition

Example: Holding the door for the person behind you

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Mores

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Norm based on morality or definitions of right and wrong

Example: Sex only for responsible adults.

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Laws

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Written down norms that are enforced by an official agency.

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Anomie Theory

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Explains common societal goals and different means to obtain these goals. Explained through mode of adaptation.

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Conformity

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(+,+)

Accepts norms about goals and accepts norms for achieving these goals.

Example: Goal is to be a doctor. Student goes to medical school to be a doctor.

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Innovation

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(+,-)

Accepts norms about goals but doesn't accept norms for achieving these goals.

Example: Goal is to get money. Drug dealer sells drugs to get money.

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Ritualism

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(-,+)

Doesn't accept norms about goals but continues to go through the motions of achieving goal norms.

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Retreatism

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(-,-)

Doesn't accept goal norms and doesn't accept means of obtaining goal norms.

Example: High School Drop out.

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Rebellion

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(x,x)

Rejecting of values and substituting with new ones.

Example: Those people who live in caves by choice.

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Social Power

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Belief that views on crime and deviance are influenced by the people in power. They are responsible for the creation and application of laws.

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What are the ABC of Deviance?

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1. Attitudes

2. Behaviors

3. Conditions

These are the ways we identify deviance.

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Attitudes

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Someone may be branded deviant by their personal beliefs.

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Behaviors

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Someone may be branded deviant by the things that they do.

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Conditions

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Someone ay be branded deviant by a condition that they are born with. Example: Extreme wealthiness is deviant

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What are the three "S's" of Deviance?

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1. Sin

2. Sick

3. Selected

They try to explain deviant behavior.

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Sin

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Cause of Deviance is because a person is "sinful"

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Sick

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Cause of Deviance is mental illness.

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Selected

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Cause of Deviance is voluntary choice.

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Medicalization

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Defining deviant behavior as a mental disorder for the benefit of the medical examiner.

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Erikson regarding Norms

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Norms are the boundaries of a community

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Erikson belief about deviance

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It helps communities identify and enforce their own individual characters and cultural sense.

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What are the four definitions of Deviance?

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1. Absolutist

2. Statistical

3. Normative/Objective

4. Reactivist/Subjective

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Positive Deviance

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Any attitude, behavior or condition that is positively evaluated

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What are the 4 types of integrated typology?

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1. Negative Deviance

2. Deviance Admiration

3. Rate Busting

4. Positive Deviance

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Negative Deviance

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Underconformity that results in negative reactions

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Deviance Admiration

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Underconformity that results in positive evaluations.

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Rate Busting

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Overconformity that results in negative evaluation.

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Positive Deviance

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Overconformity that results in positive evaluations.

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Labelling Theory

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The theory of how self identity and behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to classify them.

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In anomie theory, what two structures is society comprised of?

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1. Identifies goals (values)

2. Identifies appropriate ways to achieve goals. (Normative)

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Functionalism

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Durham Defines Deviance as a normal occurrence in society.

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What functions does deviance serve?

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1. Clarifies Norms and increases conformity

2. Strengthens social bonds among the people reacting to the deviant

3. It can lead to positive social change.

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Strain Theory

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Developed by Merton. States that deviance among the poor results from a gap between the cultural emphasis on economic success and the inability to achieve such success through legitimate means of working

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According to Durkheim, what is crime's function in society?

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To support and reassure social norms of a society by going against the society

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Differential Association

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Through interactions with others, individuals learn the values attitudes, techniques and motives for criminal bahavior.

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Social Control Theory

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States that the reason individuals break the law is because of a breakdown with their societal bond

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The Constructionist Stance

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The idea that deviance is socially constructed. Social problems are analyzed to explain deviance.

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What has led to the increase in child abuse?

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1. Out of marriage births

2. Inner city poverty

3. Drug abuse