Test 3 Sociology

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Deviance

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Behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms.

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Formal deviance

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behavior that breaks laws or official rules.

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Informal divance

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behavior that violates customary norms

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Durkheim argued that society

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Needs to deviance to know what presumable normal behavior is.

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Social Movements

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Networks of groups that organize to support or resist changes in society.

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medicalization of deviance

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Medicalizing deiviance attributes deviant behavior to a sick state of mind, where the solution is to cure the deviant

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Functionilst theory

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Deviance creates social cohesion, results from structual strains, and occurs when people's attachment ot social bonds is diminished.

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Symbolic Interaction Theory

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Deviance is a learned behvaior reinforced through group membership, results from the process of social labeling, and those with the power produce deviance.

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Conflict Theory

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Dominant classes control the definition of and sanctions attached to deviance. Deviance results from social inequity in society. Elite deviance and corporate deviance goes largely unrecognized.

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Durkhiem saw

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Deviance as functional for society ecause it produces solidarity among society's members.

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Anomie

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Condition that exists when social regulations in a society break down; the controlling influences of society are no longer effective, and people exist in a state of relative normlessness.

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Anomie Suicide

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occurs when the disintegrating forces in the society make individuals feel lost or alone.

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Altruistic suicide

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occurs when there is excessive regulation of individuals by social forces.

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Egoistic suicide

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occurs when people feel totally detached from society.

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Robert Merton's Structual Strain Theory

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traces the origins of deviance to the tensions caused by the gap between cultural goals and the means people have available to achieve them.

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Conformity

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occur when the goals are accepted and the means for attaining the goals are made available.

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Retreatism deviance

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likely when neither the goals nor the means are available.

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Rebellion

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new goals are subsituted for more traditional ones and also new means are undertaken

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Social control theory

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A type of functionalist theory suggests that deivaince occurs when a person's attachment to social bonds is weakened.

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Elite deviance

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refers to the wrong doing of wealther and pwerful individuals and organizations.

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Social control

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which groups and individuals within those groups are brought into conformity

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Social control agents

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those who regulate and adminisiter the response to deviance.

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Symbolic interaction theory

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holds that people behave as they do beacuse of the meanings people attribute to situations.

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W.I. Thomas

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deviance as a normal response to the social conditions in which people find themselves.

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Differential association theory

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deviance as one learns through interaction with others

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Labeling theory

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interprets the responses of others as the mose significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is both created and sustained.

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Primary deviance

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actual violations of a norm or law

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Secondary deviance

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is the behavior that results from beind labeled as deviant.

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Tertiary deviance

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occurs when the deviant fully accepts the deviant role but rejects the stigma.

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Deviant identity

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The definition a person has of himself or herself as a deviant

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deviant career

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is the sequence of movemtns people make through a particular subculture of deviance.

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Deviant communities.

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Groups organized around particular forms of social deviance

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Stigma

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an atribute that is socially devalued and discredited.

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master status

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a characteristic of a person that overrides all other features of the person's identity

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Crime

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behavior that violates particular criminal laws

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Ciminology

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the study of crime from a scientific perspective

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index crimes

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violent crims of murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

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Personal crimes

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are violent or nonviolent crimes directed against people.

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hate crimes

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assaults and other malcious acts

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property crimes

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involve theft of property

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victimless crimes

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violate laws but are not listed in the FBI serious crime index.

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Organized crime

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crime committed by structured groups

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Racial profiling

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Driving while black

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Terrosim

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a viloent act to achieve political ends.

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Status

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a socially defined position in a group or soceity

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Social differentiation

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process by which different statuses develop in any group