Social Control and Social Deviance

Question 1

Any transgression of socially establish norms

Answer 1

Social deviance

Question 2

Crime or the violation of laws

Answer 2

Formal deviance

Question 3

Minor transgressions or norm violations

Answer 3

Informal deviance

Question 4

Violation of laws enacted by society

Answer 4

Crime

Question 5

Way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and get along on a day-to-day basis

Answer 5

Social cohesion

Question 6

Social cohesion based on sameness

Answer 6

Mechanical or segmental solidarity

Question 7

Social cohesion based on different and independent of the parts

Answer 7

Organic solidarity

Question 8

Mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals

Answer 8

Social control

Question 9

Mechanisms of social control by which rules or laws prohibit deviant criminal behavior

Answer 9

Formal social sanctions

Question 10

Usually unexpressed but widely known rules of group membership; the unspoken rules of social life

Answer 10

Informal social sanctions

Question 11

Degree to which you are integrated in your social group or community

Answer 11

Social integration

Question 12

Number of rules guiding your daily life and, more specifically, what you can reasonably expect from the world on a day-to-day basis

Answer 12

Social regulation

Question 13

Suicide that occurs when one experiences too much social integration

Answer 13

Altruistic suicide

Question 14

Suicide that occurs as a result of insufficient social regulation

Answer 14

Anomic suicide

Question 15

Suicide that occurs as a result of too much social regulation

Answer 15

Fatalistic suicide

Question 16

Sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable, too little social regulation; normlessness

Answer 16

Anomie

Question 17

Robert Merton’s theory that deviants occurs when a society does not give all of its members equal ability to achieve socially acceptable goals

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Strain theory

Question 18

Individual who accepts both the goals and strategies to achieve them that are considered socially acceptable

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Conformist

Question 19

Individual who rejects socially defined goals but not the means

Answer 19

Ritualist

Question 20

Social deviant who accepts socially acceptable goals but reject socially acceptable means to achieve them

Answer 20

Innovator

Question 21

One who rejects both socially acceptable means and goals by completely retreating from, or not participating in society

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Retreatist

Question 22

Individual who rejects both traditional goals and traditional mean and wants to alter or destroyed the social institutions from which he or she is alienated

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Rebel

Question 23

Belief that individuals subconsciously notice how others see you or label them, and their reactions to those labels overtime form the basis of their self identity

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Labeling theory

Question 24

First act of rule breaking that may incur a label of a “deviant” and thus influence how people think about an act toward you

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Primary deviance

Question 25

Subsequent acts of rule breaking the law her after primary deviance and as a result of your new deviant label and peoples expectations of you

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Secondary deviance

Question 26

Negative social label that not only changes others behavior toward a person but also alters the persons on self-concept and social identity

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Stigma

Question 27

Theory explaining how social context and social cues impact whether individuals act deviant; specifically, whether local, informal social norms allowed to even acts

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Broken Windows Theory of Deviance

Question 28

Crime committed in public and often associated with violence, gangs, and poverty

Answer 28

Street crime

Question 29

Offense committed by a professional(s) against a corporation, agency, or other institution

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White-collar crime

Question 30

Particular type of white-collar crime committed by the officers CEOs and other executives of a corporation

Answer 30

Corporate crime

Question 31

Philosophy of criminal justice arising from the notion that crime results from a rational calculation of its costs and benefits

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Deterrence theory

Question 32

When an individual who has been involved with the criminal justice system reverts to criminal behavior

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Recidivism

Question 33

A circular building composed of an inner ring and an outer ring designed to serve as a prison in which guards housed in the inner ring can observe the prisoners with out the details knowing whether they are being watched

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Panopticon

Question 34

Act of abiding by society’s norms or simply following the rules of group life

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Normative compliance

Question 35

Suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a social group

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Egoistic suicide