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19 Cards in this Set
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Deviance |
Departing from usual or accepted standards |
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Informal vs formal deviance |
Informal- Violations of norms not in law Formal- Violations of the law |
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Strain Theory |
Society puts pressure on individuals to achieve socially accepted goals |
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Labeling theory |
People see how they are labeled and accept label as being true |
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Members of strain theory |
Conformist Innovators Ritualistic Retreats tsunami Rebels |
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Crime |
An action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable le by law |
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Broken Windows theory |
Explains how social context and cues affect the way individuals act |
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Classes in the U.S. |
Capitalists- owned the means of production Workers- sold their labor for wages |
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Stratification |
Systematic inequalities between groups of people that arise as intended or unintended consequences of social processed and relationships |
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SES |
Social economic status |
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Social mobility. Vertical and horizontal |
Movement of people in society. Vertical- up or down a status Horizontal- movement within a job |
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Open and closed system |
Open- system exchange of matter it's environment, presenting import and export. Closed- Isolated from the environment |
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Race |
Socially defined category, based on real or perceived biological differences between groups of people |
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Ethnicity |
Socially defined category based on common language, religion, nationality, history, or another cultural factor |
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Symbolic ethnicity |
Ethnicity that is individualistic in nature without real social cost for the individual |
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Eugenics |
Science of genetic lines and the inheritance traits they pass on from generation to generation |
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Racism |
Belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal human traits |
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Prejudice vs discrimination |
Prejudice- applies to all members Discrimination- unequal treatment. Usually motivated by prejudice |
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Pluralism |
Presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society with no one group being in the majority |
