social deviance Flashcards
Deviance
Behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms.
Social control
Attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behaviors in ways that limit or punish deviance.
Positive and negative sanctions
Negative - Negative social reactions
Positive - Affirmative reactions, usually in response to conformity
Folkways
The customs or conventions of everyday life.
Formal sanctions
Formal sanctioning of deviance occurs when norms are codified into law, violation almost always results in negative sanctions from the criminal justice system - the police, courts, and prison system.
Biologically essentialist explanations of deviance
A person’s essential biology made them deviant. (made in)
Psychological explanations of deviance
They are deviant because improper or failed socialization. (made up)
Cultural norms
Social and cultural norms are rules or expectations of behavior and thoughts based on shared beliefs within a specific culture or social groups.
social deviant theories
- containment
- labeling
- differential association
- conflict
- structural functionalism
- strain
victimization surveys
representative samples of the population, if they have had any experiences with crime
overcriminalized
more easily assumed to be criminal and treated are by the the police and public at large
criminal justice system
- the police
- the courts
- the system of punishment and corrections
bail
Allows people to be released after a certain amount of money is given and that they’ll show up for their day in court
plea bargaining
A useful tool for quickly resolving simple cases and easing the burden on the courts
mass incarceration
The growth of the incarcerated population over the past several decades, and the social, political, and economic conditions that caused it
