Deviance & Social Control Flashcards
Crime
Deviance that breaks the law
Conflict theory of deviance
Those with power are able to shape and define what is considered deviant and stigmatize those that do not conform
Positive functions of deviance
- defines and reinforces moral boundaries
- increases social solidarity (collective sense of we are behaving appropriately and this happens when you do not)
- feeing morally superior (social psychological wellbeing that one is right)
Deviance
Behaviour that is differs from the normal
Strain theory
As the economy recedes there is more pressure on resources and greater likelihood for crime to occur
Conformists
People who accept both cultural goals and traditional means of achieving those goals
Not deviant
Innovators
Accept the same cultural goals as conformists but reject conventional means of achieving them
Ritualists
Realize they will not be able to achieve cultural goals nonetheless continue to engage in conventional behaviour associated with such success
Retreatists
Reject both cultural goals and traditional routes to their attainment
Subculture theory
Some subcultures have values and attitudes that are conducive to crime
Social learning theory of crime
People learn from community around them. Learn values and attitudes associated with crime
Social control theory
Peoples attitudes and values encourage them to not break the law. So when they are internalized they do not have that strain therefore control and commit deviant acts
Labelling theory
Self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone conforms to a label defined by others
Primary deviance
Out of character
Secondary deviance
In character
