Chapter 7 Flashcards
Mass surveillance
Watching or otherwise monitoring the movements, activities, conversations, and associations of a target population with the purpose of preventing people from engaging in what is defined as wrongdoing, catching those engaged in acts of quotations wrongdoing, quotations protecting the public from quotations wrongdoers, quotations and rewarding and penalizing those who engage or failed to engage in specific actions for example good driving
Deviance
Any behavior or physical appearance that is socially challenged or condemned because it departs from the norms and expectations of a group
Conformity
Behavior and appearances that follow and maintain the standards of a group; also the acceptance of the cultural goals in the pursuit of those goals, though means to define as legitimate
Social control
Method used to teach, persuade, or force a group of members, and even non-members, to comply with and not deviate from its norms and expectations
Folkways
Norms that apply to the mundane aspects of our details of daily life
Mores
Norms that people define as essential to the well-being of their group. Violation of Morse can result in severe forms of punishment.
Censorship
A method of preventing information from reaching an audience
Censors
People whose job is to sift information conveyed through movies, books, letters, email, TV, the Internet, and other media, to remove or block any material that is considered unsuitable or threatening
Surveillance
A mechanism of social control that involves watching and otherwise monitoring the movements, activities, conversations, and association of people to prevent them from engaging in wrongdoing; to catch those who are engaged in wrongdoing; to ensure that the public is protected from wrong doers
Disciplinary society
A social arrangement that normally surveillance, making it expected in routine
Sanctions
Reactions of approval or disapproval to others, behavior, or appearance
Positive sanctions
Expressions of approval and rewards for compliance
