Crime And Deviance Definitions

Question 0

Achieved status is..

Answer 0

One that is acquired on the basis of merit; it is a position that is earned or chosen and reflects a persons skills, abilities and efforts.
E.g. Being a criminal or professional athlete

Question 1

What is status?

Answer 1

It refers to ones position in a social system. It comes with a set of rights, obligations, behaviours, and duties that people of certain positions are expected to perform

Question 2

Ascribed status is..

Answer 2

This is not earned, but rather it is something people are either born with or had no control over. Examples include sex and age

Question 3

Crime is defined as…

Answer 3

behaviour which breaks laws allowing you to be punished by the legal system with some form of sanction.

Question 4

Deviance is defined as…

Answer 4

Behaviour which goes against the norms, values and expectation in society

Question 5

Marxism is..

Answer 5

A social, political and economic philosophy that examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity and economic development. Marxism posits that the struggle between social classes, specifically between the bourgeoisie (capitalists) and proletariat (workers), defines the development of the state, and that the bourgeoisie seek to gain control of the factors of production from the “masses.”

Question 6

Functionalism..

Answer 6

the theory that all aspects of a society serve a function and are necessary for the survival of that society.

Question 7

Surveillance is defined as..

Answer 7

Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion

Question 8

Anomie is..

Answer 8

The breakdown of social norms (Durkheim)

Question 9

Chivalry thesis is..

Answer 9

Term used to describe that the criminal justice system may be more lenient to women over men for the same offence.