Week One Chapters 1-5

Social scientists have survey research, experimental design, historical methods, official statistics, and field research at their disposal.

In order to understand what goes on in deviant worlds, which two are associated according to the text.

The absolutist perspective is considered a simple task, implying that widespread agreement exists about what is deviant and what is not.

What could be considered absolutist deviance?

Social constructions define meanings, notions, or connotations that are assigned to objects and events in the environment and to people’s notions of their relationships to and interactions with these objects.

The more the relativists examined norms in different places, they considered this less universal.

Relativists agree that deviance is in the eye of the beholder rather than the act itself.

Killing someone in self defense can be considered non-deviant.

What is the social power of perspective?

What are the three types of norms?

Folkways are associated with customs, traditions, and etiquette.

Mores are based on broad societal morals.

Are laws the weakest norms?

People can be labeled as the ABC's of deviance. ABC stands for:

What are the 3 categories of the S's?

Deviant behavior can be talked about in social units called?

Boundaries are a fixed property of any community.

The four analytic types of deviance are negative deviance, rate busting, deviance admiration, and positive deviance.

Co0hen defined deviance as "behavior that violates normative rules."

Negative evaluations and under conformity or nonconformity would be considered negative deviance.

Positive evaluations and over conformity would be considered positive deviance.

Norm is defined as?

Deviance is the repeated or serious violation of society's expectations.

Theft burglary and rape are considered negative deviances?

Rate busting is considered under conformity?

An Integrated Typology of Deviance Applied to Ten Middle-Class Norms ar: 1. Loyalty 2. Privacy 3. Prudence 4. Conventionality 5. Responsibility 6. Participation 7. Moderation 8. Honesty 9. Peacefulness 10. Courtesy

Rate Busting: - Group Loyalty/Fanatism - Privacy/Seclusion - Prudence/Puritanism - Conventionality/Provincialism - Responsibility/Priggishness - Participation/Dependence - Moderation/Asceticism - Honesty/Tactlessness - Peacefulness/Wimpishness - Courtesy/Obsequiousness

Deviance Admiration: - Group Loyalty/Rebellion - Privacy/Investigation - Prudence/Exhibitionism - Conventionality/Faddishness - Responsibility/Adventurousness - Participation/Independence - Moderation/Rougishness - Honesty/Tactlessness - Peacefulness/Revelry - Courtesy/Irreverence

Positive Deviance: - Group Loyalty/Altruism - Privacy/Circumspection - Prudence/Discretion - Conventionality/Properness - Responsibility/Hyperresponsibility - Participation/Cooperation - Moderation/Temperence - Honesty/Forthrightness - Peacefulness/Pacifism - Courtesy/Gentility

Three Variations in why People respond to Deviance Differently

Moral order is a central dimension of culture?

Which theory helps to examine the legal order?

The theory of the social reality of crime is formulated by? Check all that apply.