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Breaching experiment

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an experiment that seeks to examine people’s reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms

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The myth of race (Omi and Winant)

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argues that race is a social construction.

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Culture of Poverty

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the belief that poor people adopt certain practices that are different from those in the middle class.

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Social Regulation

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the number of rules guiding your daily life. What you expect from the world on a day-to-day basis

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Stratification (Max Weber)

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stems from a combination of class and status

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Disciplinary techniques

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modes of monitoring, examining, and regulating that are diffused through society

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Latent functions

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covert or unintended functions of an institution

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Assimilation

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the process of foregoing one’s cultural traditions and replacing them with the behaviors and practices of the new dominant culture

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White Collar Crime (Edward Sutherland)

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any offense committed by a professional against a corporation, agency, or other institutions example: embezzlement, fraud

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Jeremy Bentham (“The Gaze”)

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  • perfected a system that made monitoring, and therefore discipline, more efficient
  • Panopticon (Observe all)
  • the prisoners begin to monitor themselves
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Social Integration

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the level to which one is connected to the social group or community

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Charismatic authority

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based on dynamic personality and personal qualities

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Functionalist view of stratification

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  • Certain tasks are vital for society
  • Vital tasks require specialization and receive greater rewards
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Social learning theory

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individuals learn to be deviant. Behaviors are learned through interaction with others. The interactions teach meaning and norms associated with the behavior.

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Cultural Capital

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the cultural and social class resources that people inherit and learn to use to their advantage

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Discreditable stigma

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a hidden “mark” that has the potential to spoil one’s identity

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Horizontal mobility

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changing social status within the same class level

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Formal Sanctions

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social control through rules or laws that prohibit deviant or criminal behavior

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Panopticon

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observe all

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Meritocracy

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status and mobility based upon individual attributes, ability, and achievement

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Legal-Rational authority

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authority resides in the office and not in the person

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De facto segregation

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a subtle process of segregation other than from official policy (housing, employment, etc.)

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Othering

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seeking to characterize a minority group as fundamentally different from the majority group. Establishing them as alien or threat

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Civil court

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Torts Stipulation: A condition placed upon businesses (low Stigma)
Disit Order: A stop action for violations of stipulations (low to moderate stigma)
Injunction: Command to not engage in an action (moderate stigma)

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Criminal Court
Crimes: go to jail (high stigma) Retribution: exacting a punishment; incarnation
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Discrimination
harmful or negative acts against people deemed inferior on the basis of their racial category
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Stanley Milgram study
- Shock experiment - people will likely follow orders, even harmful ones, when instructed by an accepted authority figure
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Labeling theory (David Rosenhan)
individuals subconsciously notice how others see or label them. Over time these labels form the basis of their self identity
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Vilfredo Pareto
- The (Vilfredo) Pareto Principle - 80% of all effects come from 20% of all causes
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Elite-mass dichotomy
a system of stratification where a governing elite hold broad power over society
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White denial
a lack of perception as to the existence of prejudice. Discrimination and racism in society
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Systemic discrimination
racism that permeates systems of economy, education, criminal justice, political, medical/health, etc. institutions
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Crime as normal (Emilie Durkheim)
- All societies have some form of crime - Crime is normal for a society - Crime is healthy for society as it helps the society (norms) to shift, progress - Lack of crime (deviance) stagnates the society and is therefore pathological
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Discredited Stigma
a “mark” that is obvious and spoils one’s identity
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Vertical mobility
movement up or down, the social hierarchy system
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Functional alternatives
different or similar social patterns and policies that provide positive functions without the dysfunctions
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Eugenics (H.H Goddard)
- controlling of fertility to influence inherited traits - H.H. Goddard contracted to test immigrants at Ellis Island. The majority were deemed to be inferior.
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Social Control
mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals
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Pluralism
the presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society.
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Traditional Authority
when a person or organization has power or influence derived from long-standing customs, beliefs, or traditions
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Racialization
formation of a new racial identity around a formally unnoticed group of people
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Informal Sanctions
social reactions to widely known, usually unspoken rules of social life
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Deterrence Theory
notion that crime results from a national calculation of costs and benefits Networks of power and knowledge intersect in ways that enhance control over all in society
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Prejudice
thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group
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Positive uses (functions) of poverty (Herbert Gans)
- Societies get rid of things that are not functional -It is dysfunctional for many people (the poor) - It must perform some function for society. -Gans lists 13 ways in which poverty performs some function.
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Micheal Foucault and discipline
- Foucalt believed that discipline is more effective than deterrence - Those who fall in-line are less likely to break the rules
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Manifest latent
overt or intended functions of an institution
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Peter Callero and conformity
a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.
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Conflict perspective on stratification
Who benefits from the stratification of society Wages and benefits are kept low through social policy
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Secondary Deviance
subsequent acts of rule breaking that occur after primary deviance and can change people’s expectations of the individual
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(William Chambliss) Saints and Roughnecks
- social class (status) impacts perception of deviant behavior by individuals - Differing responses to similar behaviors exposes power differentials in society
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Kenneth and Mamie Clark Study
Conducted experiments to examine the effects of segregation on young children
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Life Chances (Max Weber)
opportunities that can increase one's social position are linked to the class into which you were born, geographic location, family ancestry, race
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Total Institution (Erving Goffman
highly regulated environments where individuals live and work under strict social and institutional control
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Scientific Racism
19th century theories on race that coincide with a quest for explanations and classifications of race
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Stigma
a negative social label that not only changes our behavior toward a person but also alters their own self identity
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Symbolic ethnicity
an alignment with a national identity yet without risk of stigma
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Race
a group of people who share a set of characteristics, typically but no necessarily physical
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Anomie
a sense of normlessness. A rapid shift in the expected rules of society (everyday life)
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Social deviance
any transgression of socially established norms
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White privilege
the uncritical acceptance of white skin
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Ethnicity
cultural values and norms that distinguish a given group from another. Often voluntary, self-defined, and fluid
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Gunnar Myrdal
- Difference in how blacks and whites prioritize issues of equality - Whites tend to focus on keeping social distances but little concern toward economics equality - Blacks value economic and legal equality but care little about social distance
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Social Darwinism
the application of biological natural selection to explain social hierarchy Those at the top are the “fittest” for the structure of society
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Strain theory
argues that society does not give all its members equal ability to achieve socially accepted goals
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Primary Deviance
the first act of rule breaking that may incur a label of “deviant”
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Racism
belief that members of separate races posses different and unequal traits

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