WK 4 L1 Transgressing

Question 1

Transgress

Answer 1

to deviate from social codes e.g break laws

Question 2

Conformity

Answer 2

when individuals accept society’s culturally sanctioned goals and follow legitimised means to achieve those goasl

Question 3

structural means of transgression

Answer 3

conformity, innovation, retreatism, ritualism and rebellion

Question 4

Conformity

Answer 4

play by the rules

Question 5

Retreatism

Answer 5

live on the fringes of society, outcasts, withdraw from society because it is unattainable

Question 6

Innovation

Answer 6

those who accept culturally sanctioned goals, However may resort to illegitimate means to achieve them

Question 7

Ritualism

Answer 7

extreme assimilation, conform to the institutional means but eliminate cultural goal attainment

Question 8

Rebellion

Answer 8

individuals create new goals and new ways of getting there

Question 9

Meritocracy

Answer 9

deeply individualistic emphasis on goal attainment which produces-anomie

Question 10

Anomie

Answer 10

sense that one is split from society

Question 11

Moral panic

Answer 11

When society reacts disproportionately to a social phenomenon, which becomes indicative of larger social problems and a decaying of society at large

Question 12

Neoliberalism

Answer 12

a state of society that frees the market from government regulations, turns economies toward finance capital and dissolves welfare provisions