Chapter 6: Social Control and Deviance Flashcards
suicide that occurs when one experiences too much social integration. Suicide for the good of the group, ex:’marine jumping on grenade to save buddies’
Altruistic suicide
suicide that occurs as a result of too little social regulation.
Anomic suicide
a sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little social regulation.
Anomie
theory explaining how social context and social cues of disorder impact whether individuals act deviantly: specifically, whether local, informal social norms allow such acts.
Broken windows theory of deviance
the common faith or set of social norms by which a society and its members abide; a set of common assumptions about how the world works.
Collective conscience
a particular type of white-collar crime committed by the officers (CEOs and other executives) of a corporation.
Corporate crime
philosophy of criminal justice arising from the notion that crime results from a rational calculation of its costs and benefits.
Deterrence theory
theory stating that in addition to the legitimate economic structure, an illegitimate opportunity structure also exists which is unequally distributed across social classes.
Differential opportunity theory
modes of monitoring, examining, and regimenting individuals that are diffused throughout society.
Disciplinary techniques
suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a social group.
Egoistic suicide
suicide that occurs as a result of too much social regulation.
Fatalistic suicide
the violation of laws enacted by society.
Formal deviance or crime
mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior.
Formal social sanctions
when an individual who has been punished for a previous offense opts not to commit further crimes for fear of going back to jail.
General deterrence
informal violations of social norms.
Informal deviance
the usually unexpressed but widely known rules of group membership, the unspoken rules of social life.
Informal social sanctions
social deviant who accepts socially acceptable goals but rejects socially acceptable means to achieve them.
Innovator
the belief that individuals unconsciously notice how others see or label them, and their reactions to those labels, over time, come to form the basis of their self-identity.
Labeling theory
social cohesion based on sameness.
Mechanical solidarity
abiding by society’s norms or simply following the rules of group life.
Normative compliance
social cohesion based on difference and interdependence of the parts.
Organic solidarity
a circular building composed of an inner ring and an outer ring designed to serve as a prison in which the detainees can always be seen and the observer-housed in the inner ring-is hidden from those being observed.
Panopticon
the first act of rule-breaking that may incur a label of “deviant” and thus influence how people think about and act toward you.
Primary deviance
individual who rejects socially acceptable goals and means but wants to alter or destroy the social institutions from which he or she is alienated.
Rebel
