Deviant Leisure

Question 1

Deviant Leisure

Answer 1

Leisure forbidden by law, custom, or belief

Question 2

Social norms

Answer 2

Shared standards of acceptable behavior

Question 3

Mores

Answer 3

Social Norms with moral weight (what is “right”

Question 4

Laws

Answer 4

Norms and mores that have been codified into law

Question 5

Informal Deviance

Answer 5

Behavior that violates social norms of behavior
 E.g. It is not acceptable to get in a public shouting match

Question 6

Formal Deviance

Answer 6

Behavior that violates laws (norms that have been codified)
 E.g. Rooster fighting is illegal

Question 7

Structural functionalism

Answer 7

Society is an “organism,” and tends towards stability
 Norms and laws form naturally to promote stability

Question 8

Conflict Theory

Answer 8

Deviance is defined by those with power in society as a
means of maintaining the status quo

Question 9

Deviance is

Answer 9

contextual, different in times and places

Question 10

Playful Deviance

Answer 10

When deviant behavior is accepted/encouraged: Mardi Gras

Question 11

Malum in se

Answer 11

Wrong in itself”
 Activities that are inherently wrong, regardless of context.

Question 12

Malum prohibitum

Answer 12

“Wrong because it is prohibited”
 Activities that are formally or informally deviant in a given context

Question 13

Deviant leisure may be classified according to the locus of harm

Answer 13

1. Harm to the individual
2. Harm to others
3. Non harmful

Question 14

Leisure boredom

Answer 14

hen life experiences are not perceived as meaningful
* Under-stimulated/motivated/interested

Question 15

DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION

Answer 15

Deviant behavior learned through interaction with others
 Social group forms and shapes our own behavior

Question 16

Retreatism

Answer 16

Lifestyle that rejects dominant social norms as personal expression
 When personal/social values do not mesh