Deviance Flashcards
What is deviance?
A recognized violation of cultural norms that can have a positive or negative response(negative usually gets more response)
List examples of norms.
- ) Your teacher showing up to class
2. ) Businesses being open during the times they are supposed to be open
Why would you not get an accurate view of society if you only focused on norms?
Not everyone follows norms.
Why is deviance relative?
It depends on who is defining it(i.e. culture, age, family, location)
What norms are so often broken that they wouldn’t cause a great stir?
Fashion norms, ways of Shans shaking, wearing a hat during school
Many people have deviated from the norm at one time or another. Why don’t these people classify as deviants?
If the behavior isn’t repetitive, it isn’t deviant.
How does deviance strengthen social control?
It makes people conform to standards and makes penalties known to everyone else.
Define the cultural transmission theory.(Hint: Frank in Catch Me If You Can)
Deals with people socialized in a particular society and become deviant because it is normal.
Define the structural strain theory.
When there are norms in place that not everyone can achieve, some will find abnormal/illegal ways of achievement without the norm.(financial success and stealing money)
Define the control theory.
People become deviant if they have weak social bonds and do not feel compelled to conform(ex: cat ladies)
Define Fuctionalist.
deviance serv s as a positive social function by clarifying moral boundaries and promoting social cohesion.
Define the conflict theory.
Society’s inequalities are reproduced in it’s definitions of deviance, so they are less powerful and are more likely to be criminalizes, created by Karl Marks(father of communism)
Define the labeling theory.
People are stigmatized by others and start acting in the way they believe that stereotype is supposed to act(ex.”potheads”)
Define /give example of principled deviance.
Acts done for a moral cause rather than for a personal gratification. Example is monks burning themselves alive in public places in protest of the Vietnam War.
What makes mental disorders fall under the category of deviant?
If the behavior caused/associated by the mental illness is deviant, the illness will be classified as deviant itself.
