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Deviance

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Acts or attributes that depart in an undesirable way from a group's norms and that provoke negative social reactions.

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Labeling theory of Deviance

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An interactionists based theory of deviance that stresses that powerful groups and persons can impose their notions or morality on others by defining certain acts as deviant and thus as deserving of negative sanctions.

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Primary deviance

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the initial and often isolated violations of rules or laws that nearly all of us take part in. These episodes of rule breaking remain primary adn are not subject to labeling as long as they are seen as incidental to our "real selves".

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Secondary deviance

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Deviance that is a response to the labeling process or to other's reactions to a person's initial or "primary" rule breaking. According to labeling theorists deviance becomes secondary when, as a result of the assessments and reactions of others we begin to to see ourselves as deviant and act in accordance with that self image.

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Tertiary deviance

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Redefining deviant acts attributes or identities as normal or even virtuous. When we participate in tertiary deviance we reject teh notion that an act or attribute is discrediting and take steps to transform stigmatized identities into valued ones. (Embracement)

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Collective Behavior:

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a relatively spontaneous activity that a group or crowd engages in as they try to work out a joint response to an ambiguous situation. (SSSR)

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Social Movements:

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a collection of individuals who organize together to achieve or prevent some social or political change.(SSSR)

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Collective behavior Assumptions

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a) structure of crowd
b) difference between crowd and individuals
Weakness: location of the group mind

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Emergent Norm Theory

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Crowds are heterogenous, face an ambiguous situation, group norm emerges out of that situation, tied to plan of action.
Ex: Sherif’s experiment;
Asch’s experiment

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Riots

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Definition: Form of collective behavior in which a large number of people assemble for the purpose of protesting a grievance and from which a violent disturbance may occur. (SSSR)

a. Precipitating event
b. Confrontation (keynoters important)
c. Carnival Phase
d. Siege

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Conclusion on riots

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riots not disorganized but emerge through interaction between participants and authorities.

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Rumor

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Definition: A piece of information that is neither substantiated or refuted and is driven by a search for meaning, clarification, and closure.

Rumor: collective problem solving

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I. discrimination

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customs and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial and ethnic inequalities in society whether or not the individuals maintaining these laws have intentions