cultural Flashcards
Reification
people are capable of forgetting their own authorship of the human world
Social order exists only as a product of human activity
Subcultures
he shared cultural traits of subcultures set them apart from the rest of their
society. Examples of easily identifiable subcultures in the United States include ethnic groups
Cultural relativism
is a concept that refers to the fact that what is regarded as true, valued, or expected in one social system may not be so in another.
Ethnocentrism
•having or based on the idea that your own group or culture is better or more important than others
Xenophobia
intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
• The Sick Deviant
• the designation of a person as ill changes the obligations which others have toward the
person and his obligations toward them.1
The Enemy Deviant
• He accepts his behavior as proper and derogates the public norm as illegitimate. The drinker as enemy seems to be the greatest stimulus to efforts to designate his act as publicly defined deviance
The Cynical Deviant
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The professional criminal commits acts whose designation as deviant is supported by wide social consensus. The
burglar. It does not threaten the legitimacy of the normative order
Revolutionary terrorism
rguably the most common form.seek the complete abolition of a political system and its replacement with new structures.
Subrevolutionary terrorism
It is used not to overthrow an existing regime but to modify the existing sociopolitical structure. Since this modification is often accomplished through the threat of deposing the existing regime,
Establishment/ state sponsored terrorism,
is employed by governments—or more often by factions within governments—against that government’s citizens, against factions within the government, or against foreign governments or groups.
Nationalist terrorism.
Nationalist terrorists seek to form a separate state for their own national group, often by drawing attention to a fight for “national liberation” that they think the world has ignored.
Religious terrorism.
Religious terrorists seek to use violence to further what they see as divinely commanded purposes, often targeting broad categories of foes
State-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorist groups are deliberately used by radical states as foreign policy tools.
Left-wing terrorism
Left-wing terrorists are out to destroy capitalism and replace it with a communist or socialist regime.