Ch 3 And 7 Flashcards
Culture and society are blank
Interwoven
Rules defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior
Norms
Three types of norms
Folkways mores and laws
Traits that exist in all cultures
Culture universes
Norms that lack moral significance
Folkway
People violate folkways are not considered wicked or immoral but we may avoid them
Norms that have moral significance
Mores
Following a folkway is a matter of choice following mores is a social requirement
I know I’m so strong that violation demand punishment by the group
Taboo
Official norms that are formally defined and enforced by officials
Laws
Some laws are violations of mores some are not
Rewards and punishment used to urge conformity to norms positive and negative
Sanction
Two types of social controls
Internal external
Deviance more likely to occur when there is a gap between cultural goals and the ability to legitimately achieve these goals
Strain theory
Bright ideas about what most people consider to be desirable and form of the basis of norms
Values
Our ideas about the nature of reality
Beliefs
Can’t be true or false
Three ways culture can change
Discovery invention diffusion
Finding something that already exist
Discovery
Creation of something new
Invention
Borrowing from other cultures
Diffusion
Groups that share a social characteristics such as age gender or religions
Social category
Part of the culture but differs in some important aspects
Subculture
Deliberately and consciously a post to certain cultural beliefs or the dominant culture
Counterculture
The active judging other cultures based on your own cultural standards
Biased
Ethnocentrism
Job related crimes committed by high statutes people
White collar crimes
Undesirable label
Stigma
Method of protecting society by keeping criminals in prisons
Incarceration
