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Identifying Deviant behavior Flashcards

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_________, _______, & ________ can be deviant

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Behavior, conditons, & beliefs

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What are the three aproaches to defining deviance?

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  1. Statical Approach
  2. Legalistic Approach
  3. Normative Approach
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The statisitcal appraoach

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Sees deviant behavior as anything that is statisically unusal or anything that has a low probability or likelyhood (Something that is unusal or uncommon)

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Social Norms

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Rules of behavior that tell us what is & what isnt acceptable in a culture

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What are the three types of norms?

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  1. Folksway
  2. Mores
  3. Laws
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Folksway

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Rules that guide everyday behavior (when broken get like a dirty look)

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Mores

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Serious rules that carry moral weight (when broken can have serious punishment) similar to laws

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Legalistic Approach

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Any behavior, belief, conditions, that violate the law

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Crimes

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Violations of the law

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Sins

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Deviant acts, conditions, or beliefs that violate religous or moral prohibitions (Like eating meat as a muslim)

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_________ indicate what is & isnt poor in taste in a culture (picking your noise in public is poor in culture)

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Folksways

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__________ approach only considers crime as deviant

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Legalistic

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Normative approach

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Sees deviant behavior as any violation of social norms & disapproving responses or sanctions towards it

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Sanctions

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Punishments or actions towards breaking rules

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Formal Sanctions

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Are given by offical agents of the state (Ex. Law enforcement)

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Informal Sanctions

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Come from nonoffical sources (Ex. Family)

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What we belive or think how we should behave in society determines what is _____

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Deviant

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Realivist perspective

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Behavior. conditions, & beliefs are deviant only to the extent that culture regard them as deviant

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Deviance is _______

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Socailly constructed

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Absolutist Perspective

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States that some behaviors, conditions, & beliefs are inherently deviant (Born that way)

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Most sociologist use _______ when determing deviance

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Relativist perspective

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COnflict perspective(critical perspective)

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Sees deviant behavior as a weapon against the vulnerable in society & used to perserve & increase the social, economic, & politcal dominance of powerful groups (Ask questions like who benefits most from this)

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Sociologist think deviance is nesscary because sometimes you have to break rules to make a _________

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Social Change

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Durkheims argued that norms become unclear & fail to contain deviant behavior due to _________

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Rapid Social Change

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Anomie

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A state where society’s norms fail to regulate behavior

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Durkheim belives deviance is nesscary in society why?

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Its a function of society that helps allow punishment of wrong behavior & allows people to know right from wrong

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Social disorganization theories

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Says that some places have more crime than because of their structiral conditions (Ex. Like proverty) make it different for the community to achieve collective efficacy (the ability to work together & share goals)

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Communities with ________ are less effective at preventing / controlling deviance / crime

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Low efficacy

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Social Control Theory

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Enforcement to not break a norm because of the threat of formal/ informal sanction by others (Dont break rules because of the control society has on you like dont want it to get on your record)

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Self - Control theory

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Claims that stable lifelong traits prevents people from commiting crimes/ deviant behavior (Our conscience)

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What theories are part of the Control Perspective?

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  1. Social Disorganization Theories
  2. Social Control Theory
  3. Self- Control Theory
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Learning Theory

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Stt=ates that we learn deviant / crimminal behavior

33
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General Strain Theory

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Believe 3 types of strains leads to deviance & crime

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What are the types of strains hat general strain theory believes leads to crime?

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  1. Failure to achieve positively goals (Not getting what you need)
  2. Removal of something valueable/ love ( Losing someone or something you loved)
  3. Presentation of negatively valed stimuli (Like getting treated bad by others)
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What are the two theories in the Motivation perspective?

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  1. Learning theory
  2. General strain theory
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Moral Entrepremarship

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Seek to change norms to align with their own moral world view

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Rule creators

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Campaign to have their defition of deviance taken seriously

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Rule Enforcers

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Seek to ensure that rules are not violated (ANyone can be a rule enforcer)

39
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What are the two steps for creating public morality?

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  1. Generating awareness
  2. Moral Converison
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What are the three componments to moral converison?

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  1. Media attetion must be sought
  2. Moral entrepreneurs must seek endorsements from repsected public figures
  3. Must form coalitions or paternships with powerful groups with shared interests
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Moral Panics

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An exaggerated, widespread fear regarding the collapse of public morality

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Folks Devil

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Th eones blamed for the collapse of the public morality & seen as a threat

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Medicalization of deviance

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Wat was once consider as “maddness” is now treatable & realized it was more mental sickeness

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Labeling (labeing persective)

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Process of how certain groups of people are consider devaint (Based on the reaction of others & not on the actual behavior)

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Labeling perspective relies on ________

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The thomas theorem

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Thomas Theorem

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If men define situtation as real, they are real in their consequences

47
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Deviant labeling usually defines how _______

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Others will see you

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Primary Deviance

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Individual break as rule or deivant behavior without any deviant labeling

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Secondary Deviance

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Individual commits a deviant behavior or crime because he is label as such

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Offical label

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Labels applied by an aauthority (Like have the word felon on your record)

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Informal label

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Occurs when a person has been label deviant by family, etc

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Both _______ & ________ are stigmatizing

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Offical labels & informal labels

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Stigma

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Mark of disgrace & interaction that communicate that one is deivant

54
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Role engulfment

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Occurs when the deviant roles takes over peope’s social roles due to others relating to them in responses to their “spoiled identity” (Ex. Cant get a job because have felon on your record)

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Master Status

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Primary status everyone knows you by

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Social Location

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Where one resides in a system of social stratication ( Central in labeling perspective) (Ex. Pros or politicans can aviod deviant labeling even if they behave deviantly )

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Justification

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Are accounts of behavior that take full responsibility for an action but deny the wrongfulness of the act

58
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What are the techniques used to maintain positive self-concept ( techniques of neutralization)

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  1. Denial of repsonisbilty
  2. Denial of injury
  3. Denial of victim
  4. Condemning the condomers
  5. Appeal to higher loyality
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Stigma managment stragteties of reducing deviant stigma & maintaining a postive identity depends on whether the stigma experinence was _______ or ________

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Visible or Invisible

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Visible Stigma

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Those that are immediately apparent in face-to-face interactions

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Invisible Stigma

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Can’t be seen & are hidden (like mental illness)

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Compensatery Strategies

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Individual attempts to offset the deviance that is acribed to them or make others more comfortable with their stigma

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Compensatery stratgies involve what?

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  1. Acknowledgment
  2. Individualing information
  3. Increased Positivity
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Acknowledgment

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When a stigmatized person directly addresses his’her stigma in an attempt to relive th tenison in the interaction

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Individuating information

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Invilves revealing information about oneself to dimish the likelihood that the person they are interacting with will rely on steortypical ideas about their status

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Increased positivity

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Kind of emotion work/ mangament of feelings, typically to preserve relationship ( when the stigmatized person tries to become come likeliable)

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Managing invisible stigmas involves what?

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  1. Passing
  2. Revealing
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Passing

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Involves attempts at presenting oneself as a memeber of a nonstigmatized group

69
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What are the 2 forms of passing?

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  1. Fabrication
  2. Concealment
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Fabrication

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Involves the presentation of a false indentity

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Concealment

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Involves taking steps to keep one’s stigmaztized identity hidden

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Revealing

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Intentionally amkes invisible stigma visble

73
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What are the steps involved in revealing?

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  1. Signaling
  2. Normalizing
  3. Differentating
74
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Signaling

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Revealing that doesnt involve direct disclosure but instead relies on subtle indicators of one’s deviant status

75
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Normalizing

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Directly disclosing their stugma but frame it like its normal

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Differentating

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Involves direct disclosure with the goal of differentationg oneself from the nonstigmatized group

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