EXAM #2 Flashcards
Any attitude, behavior, or condition that violates cultural norms or societal laws and results in disapproval, hostility, or sanction
- A yellow ladybug in a group of red ladybugs
Deviance
Everyone partakes in deviance:
People of _ break norms
all ages
Everyone partakes in deviance:
People of all ages break norms
- Stereotypically characterized in _
children
Everyone partakes in deviance:
People of all ages break norms
- Adults still commit deviance
– _: speeding, jay walking
Folkways
Everyone partakes in deviance:
People of all ages break norms
- Adults still commit deviance
– _: Drunk driving, illicit (hard) drugs
Mores
Everyone partakes in deviance:
People of all ages break norms
- Adults still commit deviance
– _ as well
Taboos
Everyone partakes in deviance:
People of all ages break norms
- But deviance is more likely to occur among _
younger generations
Categorizing Deviance:
R. K. Merton offers more details than your book
- 2 types
- Informal deviance
- Formal deviance
Categorizing Deviance:
R. K. Merton offers more details than your book
- Actions and behaviors that violate social norms (Merton, 1967)
– breaking folkways and mores
Informal deviance
Categorizing Deviance:
R. K. Merton offers more details than your book
- Actions and behaviors that violate formally
enacted rules (Merton, 1967)
– breaking mores and taboos
Formal deviance
Categorizing Deviance:
The book categories deviance into 3 categories
- Everyday deviance
- Sexual deviance
- Deviance among the powerful
Categorizing Deviance:
The book categories deviance into 3 categories
- everyone breaks folkways
Everyday deviance
Categorizing Deviance:
The book categories deviance into 3 categories
- Evolution of Norms/Some always taboo
Sexual deviance
Categorizing Deviance:
The book categories deviance into 3 categories
- Crimes of power
Deviance among the powerful
Social Control of Deviance:
Societies try to limit _
deviance
The attempts of particular people or groups to control the behaviors of other individuals and groups in order to increase the likelihood they will conform to the established norms or laws of a given society
Social control of Deviance
Social Control of Deviance:
All of our deviance is controlled in two ways
- Informal control
- Formal control
Social Control of Deviance:
The unofficial mechanisms through which deviance is discouraged in society, most often occurs among ordinary people during the course of their interactions
Informal control
Social Control of Deviance:
Informal control
- What 3 unofficial mechanisms?
- Social cues
- Symbolic behaviors
- Verbal labels
Social Control of Deviance:
Informal control
- What unofficial mechanism?
– Sitting too close or dancing naked will lead people to look at you crazy
Social cues
Social Control of Deviance:
Informal control
- What unofficial mechanism?
– Alliances, social closure, ostracism
– Job offers, Promotions, Acceptance into organizations
symbolic behaviors
Social Control of Deviance:
Informal control
- What unofficial mechanism?
– Oh that person’s fine they are just “____.”
verbal labels
Social Control of Deviance:
Official attempts to discourage certain behaviors and visibly punish others, most often exercised by the state
Formal control
Social Control of Deviance:
_ are any type of formal rules
- Rules in school
- Rules at work
- Rules in any bureaucracies
- And of coarse, the biggies, rules for society
– Law, Courts, and Prisons