6 Flashcards
any transgression of socially established norms
Social Deviance
a circular building composed of an inner ring and an outer ring designed to serve as a prison in which the guards, housed in the inner ring, can observe the prisoners without the detainees knowing whether they are being watched
Panopticon
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 daily life, and all activity occurs in the same place under the same single authority
Total Institution
theory explaining how social context and social cue impact whether individuals act deviantly - specifically , whether local, informal social norms allow deviant acts
Broken Windows Theory
a negative social label that not only changes other behavior toward a person but also alters that person’s own self-concept and social identity
stigma
the belief that individuals subconsciously notice how others see or label them, and their reactions to those labels over time from the basis of their self identity
Labeling Theory
how well you are integrated into your social group or community
Social integration
suicide that occurs as a result of too much social regulation
Fatalistic Suicide
suicide that occurs as a result of insufficient social regulation
Anomic Suicide
sucide that occurs wehn one experineces too much social integation
Altruistic Suicide
suicide that occurs when one is not well intefeated into a social group
Egoistic Suicide
mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior
Formal Social Sanctions
subsequent acts of rue breaking that occur after primary deviance and as a result of your new deviant level and peoples expectations of you
Secondary Deviance
mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals
Social Control
the first act of rule breaking that may incur a label of “deviant” and thus influence how people think about and act towards you
Primary Deviance
