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13 Cards in this Set
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Absolutist View
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The view that there is wiide agreement about social norms and that certain behaviors are deviant regardless of the social context in which they occur.
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Anomie Theory
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The view that deviance arises from the incongruences between a society's emphasis on attaining certain goals and the availabitliy of legitamate, institutionalized means of reaching those goals
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Blaming the Victim
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A type of reasoning that implies that social problems are caused by the people facing them.
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Conflict Theory
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A social theory that views conflict as inevitable and natural and as a significant cause of social change
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Crime
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A violation of a cirminal statutory law accompanied by a specific punishment applied by some governmental authority
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Cultural Transmission Theory
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The theory that a community's deviance may be transmitted to newcomers through learning and socialization
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Deviance
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Variation from a set or norms or shared social expectations
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Differential association theory
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The theory that deviance results when individuals have more contact with groups that define deviance favorable than with groups that define it unfabvorable
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Differntial Reinfor cecmennt
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The view that the acquisition and perisstence of either deviant or conforming behavior is a function of what behaviors ahve been rewarded or punsihed
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external contorls
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pressures or sanctions applied to members of society by tohers
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formal eddxternal controls
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formal ssytems of csocial control applied to the individual by others; examples include coursts, police and prisons
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immoral view
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the view that deviance is immoral and antisocial
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informal external contorls
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pressure applied by peers, friends, parents, and other people with whom one associates reguarly that are intended to encourage one to obey rules and conform to social expectations
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