Topic 1

Question 1

social control

Answer 1

Use of various methods to persuade/ force individuals to conform to the dominant social norms + values

Question 2

Formal social control

Answer 2

Carried out by agencies of social control specifically set up to ensure people conform to written rules in society

Question 3

Informal social control

Answer 3

Carried out by institutions whose primary purpose is not social control

Question 4

crime

Answer 4

Behaviour which is against law

Question 5

Deviance

Answer 5

Behaviour which fails to conform to norms of a particular society

Question 6

Societal deviance

Answer 6

Socially unacceptable acts

Question 7

Situational deviance

Answer 7

acts defined as deviant in a particular context

Question 8

Moral entrepreneurs

Answer 8

Institutions within society that have the power and resource to impose their own definitions of criminal behaviour (e.g police )

Question 9

Primary deviance

Answer 9

Insignificant acts that have not been publically labelled e.g stealing

Question 10

Secondary deviance

Answer 10

Deviance that follows once a person has been publicly labelled as deviant

Question 11

Master status

Answer 11

Society interprets all acts and motives within the context of the label - becomes persons main title

Question 12

Phenomenology

Answer 12

Study of the 1st hand human experience and is a subjective line of study. It is the belief that society is a human construction

Question 13

Typifications

Answer 13

Officers decisions to arrest are influenced by the stereotypes they hold

Question 14

Right realists

Answer 14

Conservative/ traditional approach
Tougher on criminals than the causes of crime

Question 15

Left realists

Answer 15

Take the approach of ‘tough on crime’ and on the causes of crime