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ch 8 sociology
definition | term |
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behavior that violates social norms | deviance |
mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society | stigma |
social scientists that study criminal behavior. devience provides job to judges, lawyers, police, and wardants | criminologists |
used devience as a natural outgrowth of the values norms and structure of society | strain theory |
a situation that arises when the norms of society are unclear or are no longer acceptable | anomie |
explains devience as a natural occurence | control theory |
this theory explains devience as a learned behavior | cultural transmission |
this concept refers to the frequency and closeness of associations a person has with deviant and non deviant individuals | differential association |
people suspend their moral beliefs to common deviant acts | techniques of neutralization |
focuses on how individuals come to be identified as devient | labeling theory |
non comformity that goes undetected by those in authority | primary deviance |
resolves in the individual being labeled by those in authority | secondary deviance |
when the individual is denounced found guilty and given the new identity of deviant | degradadation |