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Deviance |
"is the recognized violations of cultural norms" to which there is significant negative societal response |
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What is the opposite of deviance |
conformity |
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How is social life governed by? |
It is governed by our shared understandings of our attitudes, norms, roles, values beliefs, etc |
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What would life be like with set rules? |
chaotic |
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Why do people conform? |
Most conformity is the result of socialization. However, most of society norms in addition have sanctions to them |
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Sanctions |
Can be positive(reward) or negative(punishment) and formal and informal sanctions |
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What are some examples of Formal and negative sanctions? |
Jail sentence, academic probation, detention, fired, court sentence |
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What some examples of informal negatives sanctions? |
criticism, isolation, grounding, confiscation, name-calling, scolding, ostracism, belittling and ridiculing |
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What are some examples of formal positive sanctions |
"A", payraise, promotion, bonus, medal, rewards |
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what are some examples of informal positives? |
reward, high five, praise thumbs up, gifts, hugs, and smiles,congratulations. |
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What is an example of deviant subset? |
crime is a subset of deviance and criminal law is when the state applies the sanctions |
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Where did Canada get most of its criminal law from? |
from the industrial revolution |
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What were the most serious crimes against the authority or prosperity of the monarch that were original offences? |
eg. 1) heresy : preaching a deviant religion doctrine "a heretic" burned alive at the stake 2) blasphemy: speaking negatively about something religious 3) sacrilege: damaging religious property |
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What is the biological part of deviance? |
phrenology (Lambroso) criming skull-type in the 19th century and the extra y chromosome theory and howard becker on "becoming a marijuana user" ofc, this theories are wrong |
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What is the extra y chromosome theory? |
men who were criminals were taught that the extra y chromosome was the reason why they were violent |
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Psychological theory |
also wrong |
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What are the three sociological theories of becoming a marijuana user? the three step learning process. |
1) learning the technique either by deliberate instructions or a novice 2) learning the high (munchies) 3) learning to enjoy the "high" - an acquired taste |
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What is Merton's Strain Theory? |
He argued that some deviance is the result of a faulty or strained relationship between goals of society and the means that society offers for achieving those goals |
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What are people who both accept the american dream |
they are conformists |
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What are people who accept and reject the american dream? |
innovators exg. w. gates rubik |
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what are the people who reject and accept the american dream |
ritualists eg. a capone c black |
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who are the people who both reject american dream |
ritualist/ rebels |
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What are Clowards and Owlins build on Mertons theory |
They argue that some in working class or ethnic minority neighbourhoods the conventional means for achieving society's goals are simply not available. |
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There are three subcultures on Cloward and Owlin's built on Theory |
1)a stable criminal subculture - with three is a collusion b/w the criminals and authorities with this there is no blood on the streets 2) conflict criminal subculture: w/ this there are "turf wars" and blood on the streets -profits from prostitution, illegal gambling, drug trade, "protection rackets" and "loan sharking" 3) retreatist - subculture "double failures" not good in the criminal world or real world |
