Ch 6: Social Control And Deviance

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Any transgression of socially established norms, where all acts lie on a spectrum from minor to severe along with the punishment that goes along with the act

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Social Deviance

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A form of deviance that is a violation of laws enacted by society

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Crime

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Social bonds; how well people relate to each other and get along on a day-to-day basis

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Social Cohesion

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Social cohesion based on sameness, where the cohesion has a reliable similarity of the parts; Existed in a premodern society

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Mechanical / Segmental Solidarity

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Social cohesion based on differences and interdependence of the parts because the members perform different specialized functions–increasing mutual dependence

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Organic Solidarity

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The common faith/set of social norms by which a society and its members abide. Without it, there would be no sense of moral unity

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Collective Conscience

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Mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals

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Social Control

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Mechanisms of social control by rules/laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior

ie) the government

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Formal Social Sanctions

Front 9

The usually expressed but widely known rules of group membership the unspoken rules of social life

ie) neighbors

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Informal Social Sanctions

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How well you are integrated into your social group or community

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Social Integration

Front 11

The number of rules guiding your daily life, and more specifically what you can reasonably expect from the world on a day-to-day basis

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Social Regulation

Front 12

Suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a social group

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Egotistic Suicide

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Suicide that occurs when one experiences too much social integration

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Altruistic Suicide

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A depressed outlook in which sufferers lack the will to take action to improve their lives

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Learned Helplessness

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A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable. Too little social regulation; normlessness

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Anomie

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Suicide that occurs as a result of insufficient social regulations. There is a disconnect between doing the right thing and being rewarded

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Anomic Suicide

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Suicide that occurs as a result or too much social regulation

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Fatalistic Suicide

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Theory that deviance occurs when a society does not give all of its members equal ability to achieve socially acceptable goals

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Strain Theory

(Merton)

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Individual who accepts both the goals and strategies to achieve them that are considered socially acceptable

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Conformist

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Individual who rejects socially defined goals but not the means

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Ritualist

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Social deviant who accepts socially acceptable goals but rejects socially acceptable means to achieve them

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Innovator

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Individual who rejects both traditional goals/means and wants to alter/destroy the social institutions from which they are alienated

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Rebel

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One who rejects both socially acceptable means and goals by completely retreating from or not participating in society

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Retreatist

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Theory:

The belief that individuals subconsciously notice how others see/label them, and their reactions to those labels over time form the basis of their self identity

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Labeling Theory

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The first act of rule breaking that may incur a label of "deviant" and thus influence how people think about and act toward you

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Primary Deviance

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Subsequent acts of rule breaking that occur after primary deviance and as a result of your new deviant label and people's expectations of you

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Second Deviance

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A negative social label that not only changes other's behavior towards a person but also alters that person's own self concept and social identity

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Stigma

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Theory:

Explains how social context and social cues impact whether individuals act deviantly. Specifically, whether local informal norms allow deviant acts

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Broken Windows Theory of Deviance

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Crime committed in public and often associated with violence, gangs, and poverty.

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Street Crime

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Offense committed by a professional against a corporation, agency or other institution

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White Collar Crimes

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A particular type of white collar crime that is committed by the officers of a corporation

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Corporate Crime

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Theory:

Philosophy of criminal justice arising from the notion that crime results from a rational calculation of its cost and benefits. The temptation of wanting the commit the crime depends on the severity of the punishment

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Deterrence Theory

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When an individual who has been involved with the criminal justice system reverts to criminal behavior

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Recidivism

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An institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basics of day-to-day life; no barriers exist between the usual spheres of life, and all activity occurs in the same place and under the same single authority

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Total Institutions

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A circular building composed of an inner ring and an outer ring designed to serve as a prison in which the guards housed the inner rind, can observe the prisoners without the detainees knowing whether they are being watched

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Panopticon