Conformity And Deviance Flashcards
Behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions standards
Conformity
Departing from usual or accepted standards
Deviance
Variety of deviance
The study of why people violates laws or norms the study of how society reacts to this violations
Was an italian criminologist and physician founder of the italian school of positivist criminology
Cesare lombroso
Criminals had
Less sensibility to paint and touch more acute site a lack of moral sense including an absence of reverse more vanity impulsiveness vindictiveness and cruelty
Deviance and the social paradigms
Structural functionalism historical conflict critical interpretivism
Offered a side by side formulation of conformity and deviance
Structural strain theory
He developed the structural strain theory
Robert merton
Refers to the discrepancies between culturally defined goals and the institutionalized means available to achieve this goals
Strain
Established goals for people
Culture
Provides or fails to provide the means for the people to achieve those goals
Social structure
Robert k merton’s deviance typology
Conformity Innovation ritualism retrieves rebellion
Accepts approved goals pursues them through approved means
Conformity
Accepts approved goals uses this approved means
Innovation
Abandoned societies goals conforms to approve means
Ritualism