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Review 3 Flashcards

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rebellion

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form of deviance likely to occur when new goals are substituted for more traditional ones, and also new means are undertaken to replace older one
by force/armed combat

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social control theory

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type of functionalist theory that suggests that deviance occurs when a person or group’s attachment to asocial bond is weakened

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corporate crime

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crime committed within the legitimate context of doing buisness

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elite deviance

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wrongdoing of wealthy and powerful indiciduals

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white color crime

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crime committed by people of high social positions in the course of their occupations

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social control t

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the process by which groups and individuals within them, are brought into conformity with the dominant social expectations

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social control agants

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those who regulate and administer the response to deviance

- like police or mental health workers

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W.I Thomas

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one of the early sociologists from the university of Chicago

  • one of the first to develop a sociological perspective on social deviance
  • explained deviance as a normal response to the social conditions in which people find themselves & delinquency is caused by the social disorganization brought on the slum like and urban industrialism
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Differential association theory

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type of symbolic interaction theory

- interprets deviance as learned behavior seen from others

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status symbol

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a possession that is taken to indicate a person’s wealth or high social or professional status

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working poor

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those who work at least 27 house a week but wages still fall below poverty line

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lower class

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displaced and poor

  • have little education
  • often unemployed or working in minimum wage jobs
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lower middle class

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-aka working class
-working in the skilled trades & low income bureaucratic, includes blue collar& service workers
sell their labor for wages (petty bourgeoisie or lumpenproletariat)

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middle class

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social class that consists of those who have moderate income

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upper middle class

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high income

  • high prestige
  • wel educatedprofesionals or excecutives
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nouveau riche

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new money to the upper class

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upper class

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own major share of corporate and personal wealth

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layers of social class

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upper
upper middle
middle
lower middle
lower
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sedimentation of racial inequality

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  • melvin oliver & thomaas Shapiro

- even though discriminatory policies have ended , many continue and their effects persist

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open class system

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placement in the class system is based on individual achievement

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closed class system

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movement from ole class to another is virtually impossible

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lumpenproletariat

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those who have become necessary as workers and are then discarded

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petty bourgeoisie

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small business owners and managers who identify whith the interests of the capitalist class but do not own the means of production

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capitalist class

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wealthy who own the means of production and buy labor of the working class

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class conflict

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conflict between entire classes over the distribution of society’s wealth and power

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multidimensional view

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3 dimensions to stratification

  • class/economics
  • status/prestige
  • party/power/political

defined by weber

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wealth

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total value of what one owns minus on’e debts

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urban underclass

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includes those who are likely to be permanently unemployed and w/out much means of economic support

  • little to no opportunity for movement out of the poverty, m
  • may become dependent on public assistance or illegal activities
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Temporary Assistance for needy families (tanf)

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stipulates a lifetime limit of 5 years for people to receive aid and requites all welfare recipients to find work within 2 years
-those who have not found jobs can be required to preform community service jobs for free

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status attainment

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process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system

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social status

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a measure of class based on

  • income
  • education
  • occupational prestige
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social mobility

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a person’s movement over time from one class to another

33
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social class

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social structure position groups hold relative to the 
economic
social
political 
cultural resources of society
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prestige

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values others assign to people and groups

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poverty line

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around of money needed to support the basic needs of a household as determined by government

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net worth

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amount of financial assets and subtracting debts

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occupational prestige

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subjective evaluation people five to job

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meritocracy

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a system in which one’s status is based on merit or accomplishments

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median income

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midpoint of all household incomes

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life chances

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the opportunities that people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class

41
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income

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amount of money received in a given period

42
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feminization of poverty

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large portion of poor are women and children

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ideology

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belief systems that support the status quo

44
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false consciousness

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class consciousness of subordinate classes who had internalized the view of the dominant class

45
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educational attainment

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total years of formal education

46
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economic restructuring

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referring to the decline of manufacturing jobs in the US,

transformation of the economy by technological change and the process of globalization

47
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class system

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stratification exists, but a person's placement in the class system can change according to personal achievements
- class depends on achieved status
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class consciousness

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perception that a class structure exists along with a feeling of shared identification with others in the class

49
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caste system

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one’s place in the stratification system is an ascribed status

50
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estate system

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ownership of property and the exercise of power is monopolized by an elite who have total control over societal resources

51
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bioterrorism

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form of terrorism involving the dispersion of chemical or biological substances intended to cause disease and death

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cyberterrorism

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use of computer to commit terrorist act

53
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status

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a socially defined position in a group or society

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social differentiation

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process by which different statuses develop in any group, organization or society

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social stratification

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system of structured inequality

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labeling theory

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branch of symbolic interaction theory,
interprets the responses of others as the most significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is sustained and created

57
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label

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assignment or attachment of a deviant identity to ap person by others
including agents and social institutions

58
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recidivism

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return to criminal activities

59
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deviant identity

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definition person has of one’s own deviant

60
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stigma

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an attribute that is socially devalued and discredited

some resume in being labeled deviant

61
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index crimes

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manslaughter
murder
rape
robbery
aggressive assult
burglary
62
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personal crimes

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violent or non violent directed against people

-ex murder, rape, robbery

63
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uniform crome reports

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major source of info on patterns of crime and arrest w crimes classified as

  • personal
  • hate
  • property
  • victimless
64
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victimless crimes

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violate laws but not listed as a serious crime
-drug use
gambling
-prostitution

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