Aps 241 Deviance Intro Flashcards

Intro

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What is the Objective-Subjective dichotomy?

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Objectivists: Universal reality and objective morality
Subjectivists: Moral relativity

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Focuses on the processes by which we percieve certain acts as moral/immoral

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Subjectivism

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Focuses on deviance and crimes that are commited

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Objectivism

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What are the 4 things associated with Objectivism?

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Statistical Rarity
Harm
Societal Reaction
Normative Violation

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According to Thio, Physical assault is an example of what?

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High Consensus Deviance

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What is a contentious issue in objectivism when looking at statistical rarity?

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What is the cut-off percentage when deciding whether something is statistically significant?

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What is the consensual view of law?

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Sees las as arising out of social consensus to be applied to all for the greater good

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What would an Interactionist say about law?

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That the powerful in society determine laws and rules based on the response of groups that approach and all tries to fix the issues.

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Says that law is a tool used by the powerful to oppress

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Conflict view of law

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According to Thio, Gambling is an example of what?

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Low-Consensus Deviance

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What does Subjectivism say about Deviance?

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Sees deviance as a label

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What is social constructionism?

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Says that social characteristics are creations of a certain society at a certain time or context

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What are the 2 subsets of social constructionism?

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Strict and Contextual

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Contextual or Strict Constructionism:
“The world is characterized by a bunch of relative claims and moralty”

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Strict constructionism

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Strict or Contextual Constructionism:
“It is important to study the pathways by which certain social phenomena come to be perceived at a certain time.”

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Contextual

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