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Socialolgy(compoment2) Flashcards

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What is crime

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An action that’s is against the law

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What is deviance

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Actions that go against norms morals and values

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Norms meaning

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A set of unwritten social rules or explanations

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Values meaning

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Ideas and beliefs that’s are important to us

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What is social construction

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Crimes and deviant acts that are made up by people in society

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Example of social construction

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Place and time

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What is the court system knows as

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Judiciary

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What is cps

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Crown prosecution service

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What do Magistrates give

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They deal with less crime and gives 6 months in jail

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What are crown courts

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They do serious crime and give punishments of life sentence and normal prison sentence

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What are functionalist view of judiciary

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Functionalism has a positive view and a consensus view because the help keep society a safe place

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What is an example that’s supports functionalism view of the law

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Prisons because they take dangerous people of the streets

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What is Marxist view of judiciary

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That’s the courts favourite the rich and the rich has more power than the poor

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Example of Marxist view of the judiciary

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That’s the judges work for the rich

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Functionalism view of the police force

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They have a positive view because the help to protect civilians

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Functionalism view of the police example

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2011 riots

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Marxist view of the police force

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Negative because the police benefit from the rich and the overreact over small things

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Example of Marxist view of the police force

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Hillsborough1989

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What is community police

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Deal with ethic minority

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community police when successful

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When there is tension between the police and community

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What is zero tolerance police

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Being strict over the smallest things

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Example of being successful from the zero tolerance police

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They make communities feel safer because they are taking the bad people out

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Informal social control meaning

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People opinions when u done something wrong they will find a way to punish you and make you feel bad

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Formal social control

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You have to follow certain rule and if you brake them you will revive proper sanctions but when you are a adult if you brake rules you could end up in court

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25
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The order of ethnicity
Who is the most likely to get arrested

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1: black African Caribbean (three more time likely to be arrested)
2: Asian men (increasing over the years )
3: white people (less likely to be arrested)

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Which class is more like to be arrested

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Lower class

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27
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Who looked at ethnicity and crime

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Paul Gilroy

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28
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Why did black people turn to crime

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Because they had to fight a injustice society

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29
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A negative of Paul Gilroy research

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Official statistics can’t be trusted

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What is a scapegoat

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People who are blamed for something they didn’t do

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31
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Who talks about scapegoats

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Stuart hall

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32
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Example of scapegoat

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All Muslims are teriorist

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33
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Example of police force being instutinal racist

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Stephen Lawrence enquiry

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34
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What is the dark figure

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When all crimes that have not been reported or recorded

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35
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A example of why people won’t report

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Because of fear or can’t be bothered

36
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Example of police officer not recording crime

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Racism
Police bias
Can’t be bothered

37
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Give me a reason of why crime is rising

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Because of more laws
People not reporting them because of fear

38
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What is victim studies

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When people do surveys about them being a victim

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Names weakness of victim studies

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Too much relying on memory

40
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What is white collar crime

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Benefit the individual

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Who was the first functionalist to talk about crime

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Emile Durkheim

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What does anomie mean

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Being insufficiently inter-grated into society Norms moral and values

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Example of anomie

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Crime, suicide and delinquency

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What is social change

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Changes that happens over time to fully change the future because of there human interaction

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Example of social change

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The suffragette movement

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Who adapted Durkheim view

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Robert Merton

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What is Robert Merton theory called

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Statin theory

48
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Why did Merton adapted Durkheim view

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Because it was to vague

49
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What does the strain theory talk about

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Achieving the American dream

50
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What is the American dream

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A nuclear family
Living outer suburbs
Good wages from parents

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Five ways people react to not achieving the American dream

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conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion

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Conformity meaning

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involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group

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Rebellion

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People can’t achieve it any the decide to go to sub cultures and fight against it

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Retreatsim

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The give up achieving the American dream

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What is rituasim

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People don’t accept your goals

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Innovation meaning

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They improve the American dream

57
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Disadvantage of Merton view

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Can’t explain where rules first came from

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What is a subculture

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A small group with its own Norms morals and values

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What is the subculture theory

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The do crime and deviance because the reject the majority view

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Who talks about the American subculture theory

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Albert Cohan

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What is reaction formation

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Lack of culture deprivation
And material deprivation

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What is status frustration

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They are frustrated with there position so they creat there own subculture

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Who talks about reaction formation and status frustration

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Albert Cohan

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Who talks about culture deprivation

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Cloward and ohlin

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Critique of cloward and ohlin

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Fails to consider white collar crime
Women have more blocked opportunities then men
Not everyone gets sucked into illegitimate career structure

66
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What is corporate crime

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Benefit the company

67
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Example of corporate crime

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Volkswagen 2015

68
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Why do people do crime in Marxism’s theory

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Consumerism and capitalism

69
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Which sociologist Marxist talks about white collar crime and corporate crime

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Sutherland

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What does Sutherland talks about

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Crimes happen due to people power in society and why crime we treated and consider differently in society

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Examples of white collar crime

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Fraud money laundering and embezzlement

72
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What does Marxist say about corporate crime

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It benefits the higher status

73
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Which sociologist talks about people being in power doing crime

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William Chambliss

74
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What does Chambliss says

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Rich people when commuted crime dies bribery and threats so they don’t go in jail

75
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What is capitalism

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A private system when individuals own capital good

76
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What is consumerism

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When u get payed by the rich and you give the money back to but there products because you think you need them

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Example of consumerism

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Buying summer clothes because you are going to the summer

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Who talks about the labelling theory in
1963

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Howard Becker

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What does Howard Becker talk about

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Understand youth culture in relation to crime and delinquency

80
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What’s is a master status

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The main thing that about you that everybody knows

81
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Once a person is seen deviant or criminal they gain a ……..

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Label

82
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Are older people vulnerable to a status and why

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No
Because they normally stay at home

83
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Are younger people vulnerable to labels and why

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Yes
Because they act in groups

84
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How does a master stays effect other people

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It’s effect how they are and behave in-front if other people

85
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What are Marxist view of crime

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crime is caused by massive wealth inequality

86
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What does relative poverty mean

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The level of poverty that changes based on concept relative to the economic climate

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Which sociologist talks about relative poverty

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Peter townsend

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