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18 Cards in this Set
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Defining deviance as "objective" Common characteristics of deviance |
-statistical rarity -harm -negative reaction by society's masses -normative violation |
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Defining deviance as "subjective" Common characteristics of deviance |
None |
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What is the social typing process |
Process by which a person or behaviour is deviantized |
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What are the steps in the social typing process |
Description Evaluation Prescription |
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What is description?
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The label or category
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What is evaluation? |
The judgement or assumption |
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What is prescription? |
The social control |
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What is the subjectivist approach to studying deviance. |
Spotlight on the construction of deviance (social typing process) Lends itself to critical analysis of society |
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What is the objectivist approach to studying deviance.
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Spotlight on the deviant act or person Lends itself to social control efforts |
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What are some examples of private law |
wills, contracts, patents |
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What are some examples of public law |
Criminal Law Taxation Law Constitutional Law |
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What are some abolitionist arguments against prisons? |
-individualizes social problems -classist and racist -increases frustration and humiliation -violence and drug use common -inmates develop new skills -reduces likelihood on reintigration |
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What is the abolitionist's alternative to prison? |
Restorative justice |
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What are the objective definition's causes for deviance? |
-learning theories -social control theories |
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What are the techniques of neutralization |
-denial of responsibilty -denial of injury -victim as deserving of fate -condemnation of the condemners -appealing to higher loyalties |
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What restrains people from deviance? |
Social bonds theory (travis hirschi) -attachment to others -commitment to the rewards of conformity -involvement in conventional activities -belief in conventional norms and values |
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What about Edwin Lamert? |
Deviance labelling theory |
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What are the levels of labelling theory |
Primary - deviant activity' Secondary - label different |
