Intro Flashcards
normative definitions of deviance
deviance occurs when someone violates a norm
positivist
reactionary definitions of deviance
Deviance refers to acts or conditions that are negatively evaluated and labeled ``deviance’’ by a social audience.
constructionist
Deviance typology
negative deviance, rate-busting, deviance admiration, positive deviance
rate-busting
overconform and negatively viewed
deviance admiration
nonconforming and positively viewed
positive deviance
overconform and positively viewed
defining deviance down
occurs when an act or belief of deviance becomes more commonplace or accepted as normative (i.e. unwed mothers…crime levels)
defining deviance up
occurs when behaviors that were once tolerated become targets of harsh condemnation (i.e. date rape, politically correct speech)
social control
informal control, medical control, legal control
informal control
in area of interpersonal relations and group living
medical control
the ways medicine functions (wittingly or unwittingly) to secure adherence to social norms – by using medical means to minimize, eliminate, or normalize deviant behavior
legal control
is administered by the criminal justice system with three major subsystems: police, law and the courts, and corrections
questions from the Positivist
Ask: Why do they do it? (Cause and effect = deviance)
questions from the Constructionist
Ask: How is deviance conceptualized, defined, represented, reacted to, and dealt with? (Anything that’s not Positivist = Reactionary definition)
positivist definition deviance
Deviance = violation of a rule (norm, law) agreed upon by the majority of a particular social group/society
Normative definition
