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9 Cards in this Set
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Conformity |
going along with peers- individuals of our own status who have no special right to direct our behavior |
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Anomie |
Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective |
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Anomie theory of deviance |
Robert Merton's theory of deviance as a adaption of socially prescribed goals or of the means governing their attainment, or both |
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Control Theory |
A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms |
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Crime |
A violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties |
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Cultural transmission |
A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interaction |
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Deviance |
behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society |
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Differential Association |
a theory of deviance that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts |
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Differential Justice |
differences in the way social control is exercised over different groups |
