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Ch. 6 Deviance Flashcards

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Deviance

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Behavior, trait, or belief that departs from a norm and generates a negative reaction in a particular group

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What is necessary for a behavior or characteristic to be defined as deviant?

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The norms and group reactions (eating with hands)

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Why was imprisonment in the United States rare prior to the 19th century?

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Lack of resources: buildings, guards, payments, food, clothing

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How do the Amish handle those who violate the norms?

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By practicing meidung, temporarily shunning the violator before before they are expected to apologize and be welcomed back to the community

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What is the most cost effective method of punishment?

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Banishment

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How did Native Americans utilize banishment?

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Banishment was considered worse than death as it severed ties between the group and individual; helped maintain social control

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How have the methods of punishment in America changed over time?

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In Colonial America, corporal punishment was the rule for the majority of crimes

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What was the function corporal punishment?

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To deliver pain and mark the offender; punishment fit crime (pickpocket gets hand cut off)

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What is the last fragment of corporal punishment?

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Spanking, used as discipline by elementary teachers

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What was a common use of branding during the 1800s?

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To mark African American slaves as property

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According to Durkheim, what are the functions of deviance for society?

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Help clarify its moral boundaries and promote social cohesion

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How are moral boundaries clarified?

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We are reminded about what is right when we have to address wrongdoings (Schiavo caese: taking wife off tube feeding)

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How does deviance promote social cohesion?

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People can be brought together as a community in the face of crime or other violations (national polls regarding ethics of Schiavo case)

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Travis Hirschi

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Social Control Theory; argued that social bonds promote conformity

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Social Control Theory

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The stronger one’s social bonds is to family, religion, and civic groups, the less likely he is to commit crime

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Why do bonds decrease crime?

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Bonds increase one’s investment in the community and increase commitment to that community’s shared values and norms

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Robert Merton

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Provided a bridge between functionalist and conflict theories of deviance by stating that an individuals position in the social structure will affect his experience of deviance and conformity;structural strain theory

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How does social inequality create conflict?

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People feel tension between societal goals (financial success)and the means they have available to meet those goals (not everyone can work hard at a legitimate job)

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Innovators

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Individuals who accept society’s approved goals but not their approved means to achieve them

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How might an innovator achieve their goals?

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They seek financial success through unconditional means (drug dealing)

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Ritualist

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Given up hope of achieving society’s approved goals but still operate according to society’s approved means

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Retreatists

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Renounce society’s approved goals and means entirely and live outside conventional norms all together

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Rebels

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Reject society’s approved goals and means and create /work towards their own goals using new means

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How do conflict theorists study inequalities of deviance?

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Believe that rules are applied unequally and punishments for rule violators are unequally distributed

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How are rules applied unequally?

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Those at the top are subject to different rules and sanctions than those nearer to the bottom

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How are punishments for rule violators unequally distributed?

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Behaviors of less powerful groups and individuals are more likely to be criminalized than the behavior of the powerful

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Richard Quinney

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Theorized the forms of capitalism pertaining to deviance and the oppression of the working class

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How did the ruling class target the poor?

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Made deviant behavior inescapable for the poor by creating laws that make them targets when they act out against repression; rich remain powerful and free to do what they want

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Social control

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Informal and formal ways of eliciting conformity to values and norms, promoting social cohesion; can be exercised in unequally in a hierarchical society

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Informal ways of social control

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Exercise of control through customs, norms, and expectations

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Formal ways of social control

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Exercise of control through laws or other official regulations

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From a conflict theorists perspective, how were anti-sodomy laws viewed?

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As a way for the heterosexual majority to exercise control over same sex minorities (penalty for sexual acts between homosexuals, even in privacy of home)

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How does the Great Recession exemplify the inequalities associated with social class?

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Millions of people lost jobs and homes due to risky behavior of the banks, yet the banks and corporations were bailed out by tax payer money; wealth protects powerful from being defined as deviant or punished for violations

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How does the controversy over voter identification reveal the unequal application of rules in our hierarchical society?

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Those opposed to voter ID claim that is keeps certain ethnic groups, immigrants, and elderly from voting Democrat away from the voting booth

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Edwin Sutherland

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Differential association theory

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Differential association theory

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Edwin Sutherland; Asserts that we learn to be deviant through our interactions with others who break the rules (peer pressure can lead to deviant behavior)

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Why is the differential association theory not applicable to addressing all forms of deviance?

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Deviance is not always the result of a willful act, like in mental illnesses. Seeks to explain “why they did it”, but can’t explain every case

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Labeling Theory

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Howard Becker; idea that deviance is not in any act, belief, or condition and instead determined by the social context (person who commits murder treated differently depending on label of either a hero or villain)

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How can applying deviant labels lead to further deviance?

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Person moves from primary deviance to secondary deviance

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Primary Deviance

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The thing that gets the person labeled in the first place (being fat)

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Secondary Deviance

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A deviant identity or career (recognizing they’re fatties who need to slim down)

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Tertiary Deviance

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Occurs when the person labeled deviant rejects the notion of deviance and attempts to redefine her “deviant” behavior as normal (gaining weight after show and accepts body as is)

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Robert Merton; a prediction that causes itself to come true merely by being stated (Great Depression “rumor of insolvency”)

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Stereotype Threat

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When students worry about academic performance, they confirm that stereotype by actually performing poorly

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Stereotype Promise

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Positive stereotypes such as the “model minority” label applied to Asian Americans, lead to positive performance outcomes

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Stigma

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Term used to signify some disgrace or failing

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How did Ervin Goffman elaborate of stigmas?

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Believed that once an individual is labeled as deviant , he is stigmatized and acquires a “spoiled identity”

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What are the three mains types of stigmas?

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Physical, Moral, Tribal

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Physical Stigma

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Physical or mental impairments

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Moral stigmas

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Signs of a flawed character

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Tribal Stigmas

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Membership in a discredited or oppressed group

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What does the study of obvious forms of deviance likes crime and mental illness tend to focus on?

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Focuses on deviance of poor and powerless while accepting the values and norms of the powerful in an unacknowledged way

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How do social scientists tend to apply definitions of deviance?

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Apply them uncritically in their research and failed to question the ways in which the definitions themselves may have perpetuated the inequalities and truths

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How did David Matza encourage social scientists to change their ways of thinking?

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“Naturalism”, setting aside preconceived notions in order to understand the deviant phenomena on their own terms

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What was Matza’s fundamental aspect for those studying deviance?

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Must appreciate the diversity and complexity of a particular social world

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What would happen if the world is approached as a simple social pathology that needs correcting?

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The researcher will never fully understand it

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How does the labeling theory suggest that a persons social location is a crucial determinant?

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It shapes how others see the person, as well as his or her own self view, and these perceptions can lead to a person from primary to secondary deviance and into a deviant career

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What do approaches that focus entirely on background factors of deviance neglect?

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The deviant’s own in the moment experience of committing the act; “foreground”

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How can crime be emotionally seductive?

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Shoplifters seek a rush or thrill from stealing rather than the product itself (rich people)

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How is Katz’s foreground model of deviance useful?

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Deepens our appreciation for the complexity of deviant behavior and reminds us that social actors are not mere products of their environment but are active participants in creating meaningful experiences for themselves, even if harmful to others

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Crime

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Violation of a norm that has been codified into law for which you could be arrested or imprisoned

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Criminology

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Study of crime and criminals by using systematic data and the social scientific theory

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Uniform Crime Report (UCR)

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Official measure of crime in the U.S. produced by the FBI’s tabulation of every crime reported by law enforcement agencies

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Violent crime

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Violence is either the objective or means to an end

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Property crime

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Does not involve violence, including burglary and arson

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