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SOC 222
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social structure and crime, focuses on broad features of society | Macrosociology |
| The framework that guides our thinking, behavior, and interactions | Social structure |
| The subsystems or social entities within our society that are organized to meet specific needs | Social institutions |
| Patterns on a mass scale, supported with large databases | Collective patterns |
| Guide our behavior, preventing us from experiencing certain areas of the social world and pressuring us to follow social norms in order to achieve our rewards | Social structures |
| Social order is the product of a general set of norms, these norms are widely shared by community members, deviance is essential to social order | Strain theory |
| A state of normlessness where society fails to effectively regulate the expectations or behavior of its members | Anomie |
| What are the functions of deviance according to Durkheim | Affirms cultural values, clarifies moral boundaries, brings people together, encourage social change |
| Conformists | People who accept cultural goals and conventional means |
| Innovators | People who accept cultural goals but reject conventional means |
| Ritualists | People who reject cultural goals but accept conventional means |
| Retreatists | People who reject cultural goals and conventional means |
| We need to understand the motives behind people who commit crimes and the availability of opportunities to learn about and participate in illegal or deviant acts | Differential opportunity theory |
| Develop among lower class adolescent boys in neighborhoods with open illegitimate opportunity structures | Criminal subcultures |
| Develop in disorganized communities where illegitimate opportunities are largely absent and those that exist are closed to adolescents | Conflict subcultures |
| Associated with drug use and the drug culture among some lower class adolescents | Retreatist subcultures |
| What circumstances lead individuals and groups within a society to engage in deviant behavior | General strain theory |
| What are the 3 major types of negative relationships that lead to strain | 1.) Prevent or threaten to prevent achievement of valued goals 2.) Remove or threaten to remove positive stimuli 3.) Present or threaten to present negative stimuli |
| A perspective that suggests socioeconomic inequality has a direct effect on community crime rates | Relative deprivation |
| The key to understanding the individual factors that affect various forms of deviance | Interactions |
| Patterns with more components and specifics | Detailed patterns |
| The meaning of behavior, attitudes, and appearances | Symbolism |
| What are the 3 propositions of social learning theory | 1.) Deviant behavior is learned according to operant condition 2.) Criminal behavior is learned in non/social settings 3.) The principle parts of learning are in groups |
| One's level of social power can determine whether one is being labeled or an agent of labeling | Power |
| The key to understanding our place in society. Producing a self is an essential part of how society makes us human | Looking glass self |
| What are the 3 elements to the looking glass self | 1.) We imagine how we appear to those around us 2.) We interpret others' reaction 3.) We develop a self concept |
| Relativist/ constructionist perspective on defining crime | Nothing automatically makes behavior criminal/deviant |
| Idea that deviance a conformity result not so much from an individuals act or a condition, but from how others respond to the act or condition | Labeling theory |
| What are the 2 central ideas of labeling theory | 1.) Deviance is a collective interaction involving more than a person's act or appearance 2.) Interactions between deviants and conformists are governed by the meaning imputed to one another's actions and reactions |
| Violations of norms that evoke little reactions | Primary deviance |
| Violations of norms that imitates greater more negative reactions | Secondary deviance |
| What are the negative consequences of labeling | Interactions with others shape self conceptions and behaviors, labeling promotes continued deviance |
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