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
Abandons approved goals and approve means
Retreatism
Challenges approved goals and means
Rebellion
A person who conforms to accept behavior or established practices
Conformists
A person who do not believe in the established cultural goals of society
Ritualist
Are those individuals that accept the cultural goals of society but reject the conventional methods of attaining those goals
Innovators
Who rejects both the cultural goals and accepted means of attaining these goals
Retreatists
They are not only reject both the established cultural goals and the accepted means of attaining those goals
Rebels
Explains why people’s behavior classes with social norms
Labeling theory
Developed by travis hirschi people care about what others think of them and conform to social expectations because their attachments to others and what others expect of them
Social control theory
