Deviance Flashcards
Deviance
An act that breaks the social norms, values and morals
admired behavior
- positive movements that people follow
- Rosa Parks
Odd behavior
Adults collecting stuffed animals
Bad behavior
Goes against the social values,
Pushing the elderly
Values
rules that are shared by most people in a culture or the ideas that they hold
(women and kids first)
Norms
Socially accepted standards about how we are expected to behave
Morals
Standards of behaviour; principles of right and wrong.
Mores
The essential or characteristic customs and conventions of a society or community:
Formal Sanction
With Examples
These are given out by an authority like the government, police or judge.
Often to do with the law
Warnings from police, sentences in court, dismissal from work, exclusion from school
Informal Sanction
With examples
Given by other social groups within a society which dont necessarily have anything to do with the law.
Disapointed reaction from parents, passed over for a promotion, excluded from a freind group