Final Test 4 Flashcards

Question

Illegitimate opportunity theory in crime and deviance

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People commit crimes bc of their deviant learning environment -Poorer ppl have frustrations about not reaching their goals

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Once a person is labeled deviant, it becomes their identity

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* Crime is the product of class struggle/inequality ○ The law is NOT neutral

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* Criminal behavior is learned via interactions ○ i.e. who you hang out with, family, peers, neighborhood

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* Looks @ issues of power, distribution of resources * Explain gendered nature of crime ○ Female criminals viewed as sick and pathological

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Women who are accused of criminal behavior have more leniency because of the belief of chivalrous

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1. Conformity ○ Using legit means to get the goals 2. Innovation ○ Individual accepts the goals but uses illegitimate means to get the goals 3. Ritualism ○ Regets goals 4. Retreatism ○ Reject society's goals AND does not want them 5. Rebellion ○ Individuals want to create a DIFFERENT goal

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○ No person is above the law ○ Laws based on fairness & equality

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Study of the Saints and Roughnecks ○ Saints committed more criminal acts but teachers did not do anything bc of their future pathways of post secondary

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1. Consensus view ○ Law is a neutral 2. Conflict view ○ Law is a tool for the have vs. nots 3. Interactionist view ○ Law reflect opinions | C.C.I

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When you favor crime rather then abiding the law -How ppl come to engane in criminal activity

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○ Looks at inconsistence and contradictions of the law ○ Laws are NOT neutral

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○ How laws play a role in maintaining women subordination I.E. Married women's property act

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Issues of oppression and discrimination

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The racial disparity in police stop and search practices

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The reaction of a group based on false/ exaggerated perception done by the media

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Men are victims of crime, but women have a higher fear of it

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○ street crimes ○i.e. makes Gambling, prostitution be seen as immoral

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* Organize production, distribution, and consumption of goods * How groups choose to exploit their environment

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1. Hunting and gathering 2.Horticulturalist 3. Pastoralism 4. Agriculture 5. Pre-industrial / Feudal 6. Industrialization 7. post-Industrialization

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* Domesticates animals and plants i.e. things like slash and burn

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* Tending herds of large animals ○ Create large social inequality's

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○ Use animals to pull plows * increase in population, food production, division of labor

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* Artisanal work: Family oriented business

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○ Use of non-animate sources of energy to produce goods ○ Development of technology, mass production, specialization, wage labor ○ 3 central development: steam power, combustion engine, and combustion motor

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○A system based on knowledge-based activities and service ○ many things change; social life, removal of family work. ○ no longer focused on manufacturing, they focused on services AND knowledge based

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1. Primary sector ○ Exploit raw materials ○ I.E. farming 2. Secondary sector ○ Transform raw materials in consumer goods ○ I.E. Cars, furniture 3.Tertiary sector ○ Provide services ○ IE. server

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○ Looked at the 3 sectors of jobs ○ Each have greatly changed overtime.

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1. Primary labor market (core jobs) ○ Requires post secondary degree ○ Stable, comfortable pay, benefits 2. Secondary labor market (peripheral jobs) ○ Insecure, temporary, offer minimum pay, ○ Often called Mcjob's

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* Organizations that represent the interest of works * Sharp decline with the youth bc of where we are working; white collar jobs

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Ppl need to connect to their work

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Work defines self worth and acceptance

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○ Dorothy smith ○ Separate lives for working women: a wife, mom, worker ○ Bifurcated consciousness; living in 2 worlds

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1. Capitalism ○ DEFINING FEATURES ○ Private ownership, ability to pursue personal gain and profit, competition among businesses 2. State/ welfare capitalism ○ Political and economic system.

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-work is ones calling, connection to god i.e. you will go to heaven if you are a good worker

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To maintain control of the state

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Collectively owned raw materials and production | owned items

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Maintains company's using force closely linked to the economy

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The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Power: ability to get what u want Domination: The group comply with commands -i.e. teachers comands to students Authority: the masses see the dominations (directions) as legit -legit implies its follows see no other way

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The staples thesis: –Canadian development isfrom exploitating raw materials

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1. Traditional authority ○Obedience is to the person § i.e. king 2. Rational legal authority ○ Devotion is to the POSITION ○ i.e. when the king dies, his brother will take his place even though his bro is dumb 3. Charismatic authority ○The individual compels people to believe in them ○ Loyalty to a person, Individuals has very specific ability's ○ i.e. god, priest that can 'talk to god'

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To complete tasks as efficiently as possible * Linked to the position, not the individual

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Adult citizens select their representative leaders through an electoral process there are 2 types

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* A hierarchy of authority * Performance-based hiring

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Organization structure in capitalism economies

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Dehumanizing and depersonalizing experience of bureaucracy

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○ Power is in a single person/ family ○ Passed down generational

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Family membership or a divine connection with god

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Controlled by ruler who does not allow citizens to participate | i.e.Russia

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For ceromonial purposes but have no actual power | i.e. Queen Elishibeth has no actual power

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1. Participatory democracy -citizens involved personally in decision making 2. Representative democracy: - citizens elect representatives to act on their behalf

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Leader relies on personal loyalties and threats of force AKA strongman

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No limits on the leaders’ use of force | i.e.Hitler and Nazi Germany

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living in 2 worlds By Dorthy Smith feminist theory

Final Test 4 Flashcards

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