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Soc Unit 2
Chapters 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| social deviance | any act that goes against socially established norms |
| informal deviance | minor violations of social norms that may not or may be punished |
| formal deviance | violates laws enacted by society like crime |
| social control | the act of abiding by society's norms or simply following the rules of group life |
| formal social sanctions | rules or laws prohibiting deviant criminal behavior |
| informal social sanctions | unexpressed widely known rules of group membership |
| Jane Jacobs | - the eyes and ears - informal control form bedrock on which formal social control rests, while formal control serves as protective surface |
| Emilie Durkheim | - division of labor - social cohesion - functionalism -suicide |
| social cohesion | the way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and get along on a day-to-day basis |
| mechanical (segmental) solidarity | social cohesion based on sameness and preform same functions in society --> punishment |
| organic solidarity | based on interdependence. Perform different specialized functions. Things work together to be cohesive --> rehabilitation |
| social integration | extent to which you are integrated into your social group |
| social regulation | how many rules guide your daily life and what you can expect on a day-to-day basis |
| egoistic suicide | not being well integrated in a group. others give your life meaning, we need to feel like we've made a difference in peoples lives. EX: protestants high risk of suicide bc of individualism. They lose social integration |
| altruistic suicide | too much social integration. Feels meaningless from anything besides group EX: Japanese Seppuku is when they kill themselves bc they feel like they failed their group |
| anomie | feeling helpless or despair that arise when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be more or less meaningful |
| anomic suicide | low social regulation. believes that they tried their best yet its still not good enough and their desired result didn't come EX: businessmen after market crash killed themselves bc they felt they did everything right yet still didn't succeed |
| Fatalistic suicide | too much social regulation. repeat same day over and over. You don't have anything to look forward to. EX: common for slaves and prisioners |
| strain theory | deviance happens when society does not give all its members equal ability to achieve goals |
| conformist | accepts both socially acceptable goals and socially strategies to achieve those goal. means don't match ends |
| ritualist | person who rejects socially defined goals but not the means. You wanna get by but not get the "American Dream" |
| innovator | follows big goals but achieves them differently |
| retreatists | rejects means and goals of normal society but just doesn't participate in society |
| rebel | rejects means and goals but wants to change or destroy social institutions |
| conflict theory | - domination of poor by rich -ruling class defines deviance |
| symbolic interaction | - individuals attached to their actions - micro |
| labeling theory | people subconsciously notice how people see them or label them and those form self-identity |
| primary deviance | first act of rule breaking that may lead to deviant label |
| secondary deviance | deviant acts after primary deviance and after receiving deviant label |
| stigma | negative label that changes others behavior toward a person |
| broken window theory of deviance | social context and social cues that impact individuals actions |
| street crime | crime committed in public |
| white collar crimes | offense committed by a professional against a corp, agency, or other institution |
| corporate crimes | type of white collar crime committed by a CEO or executive or a corporation |
| Deterrence theory | crime results from a rational calculation of the costs and benefits of criminal activity |
| specific deterrence | system monitors criminals so they don't make the same mistake again --> reduces recidivism |
| general deterrence | you know the risks so decided not to take it --> reduces crime |
| recidivism | someone who previously committed a crime reverts back to old ways and commits another crime |
| total institution | institutions that control every aspect of day-to-day life |
| panoptican | building structure where inmates don't know if they are being watched or not; asserts power. |
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