Challenges in Social Relationships for Teens

Question 1

Deviance

Answer 1

Actions or behaviours that violate social norms, including formally enactd rules (e.g. crime), as well as informal violations of social norms.

Social norms may vary. A deviant act can be commited in one society that breaks a social norm there, but may be normal for another society. Deviance can be relative to time and place because what is considered deviant in one social context may be non-deviant in another.

Question 2

Tolerance Limit

Answer 2

The threshold a certain community will agree upon as acceptable or just behaviour

Question 3

Merton’s Strain Theory

Answer 3

Individuals are more likely to pursue illegitimate actions in order to achieve society’s most cherished goals when they are blocked from accessing the institutionalized means to these goals

Deviance is created from the very systems that means to control it

You may want to be a doctor but dont have the financial means to attend school

Question 4

Social structures may ____ citizens to commit crimes

Answer 4

pressure

Question 5

5 types of social strain

Conformists

Answer 5

Accept goals (make $) and means (hard work)

maintains status quo

Question 6

5 types of social strain

Ritualists

Answer 6

Reject goals ($), accept means (work)

teachers, social workers, police officers