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SOC 222

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Social structure and crime, focuses on broad features of society   Macrosociology  
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The framework that guides our thinking, behavior, and interactions   Social structure  
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The subsystems or social entities within our society that are organized to meet specific needs   Social institutions  
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Patterns on a mass scale, supported with large databases   Collective patterns  
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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  
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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  
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A state of normlessness where society fails to effectively regulate the expectations or behavior of its members   Anomie  
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What are the functions of deviance according to Durkheim   Affirms cultural values, clarifies moral boundaries, brings people together, encourage social change  
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Conformists   People who accept cultural goals and conventional means  
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Innovators   People who accept cultural goals but reject conventional means  
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Ritualists   People who reject cultural goals but accept conventional means  
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Retreatists   People who reject cultural goals and conventional means  
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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  
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Develop among lower class adolescent boys in neighborhoods with open illegitimate opportunity structures   Criminal subcultures  
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Develop in disorganized communities where illegitimate opportunities are largely absent and those that exist are closed to adolescents   Conflict subcultures  
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Associated with drug use and the drug culture among some lower class adolescents   Retreatist subcultures  
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What circumstances lead individuals and groups within a society to engage in deviant behavior   General strain theory  
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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  
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A perspective that suggests socioeconomic inequality has a direct effect on community crime rates   Relative deprivation  
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The key to understanding the individual factors that affect various forms of deviance   Interactions  
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Patterns with more components and specifics   Detailed patterns  
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The meaning of behavior, attitudes, and appearances   Symbolism  
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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  
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One's level of social power can determine whether one is being labeled or an agent of labeling   Power  
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The key to understanding our place in society. Producing a self is an essential part of how society makes us human   Looking glass self  
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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  
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Relativist/ constructionist perspective on defining crime   Nothing automatically makes behavior criminal/deviant  
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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  
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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  
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Violations of norms that evoke little reactions   Primary deviance  
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Violations of norms that imitates greater more negative reactions   Secondary deviance  
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What are the negative consequences of labeling   Interactions with others shape self conceptions and behaviors, labeling promotes continued deviance  
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