Part I study guide

Pregunta	Respuesta
DEVIANCE	Observation that many of the institutional designed to discourage deviant behavior may serve to perpetuate or even increase deviance.
Absolutist Perspective	considered defining deviance as a simple task, implying that a widespread consensus exist about what is deviant and what is not
Emile Durkheim	agreed that the laws of any given society are objective facts. Lays reflect the "collective consciousness." They exist before individuals enter society and thereby reveal its true social nature.
Homogeneous Society	Will flourish in a society where citizens agree that there is something obvious within each deviant act, belief, or condition that makes it different. If it wrong in the past it is wrong always
Normative behavior	Is inherently good and deviance is inherently bad
Three Perspectives on Defining Deviance	Absolutist Perspective Relativist Perspective Social Power Perspective
Relativist Perspective	That group in society makeup rules to fit the practical needs of their institutions - believed that deviance was not universal, yet varied to suit people who hold them. Deviance derived from humans not God or nature.
Relativist Argument	the definitions of deviance are social products have likely to be situationable invoked under certain circumstances
Social Power Perspective	The views on crime and deviance are not arbitrarily formed by just any group of "other" (close to comfort theory)
Quinney's belief	Laws reflect the interest and concern of the dominant class in a society Deviance - a representation of unequal power in society
Deviant Identity	Two sides of constructional deviance - is articulation and it's appreciation
Deviance	violation of social norms
norms	behavioral codes or prescriptions that guide people into actions and self presentation that confirm to social acceptability
3 types of norms	folkway mores lawas
Folkway norms	standards of dress, demeanor, physical closeness to the distance from others and existing behaviors...
Mores (mor-ays)	Norms based on broad societal morales who's infractions would generate more serious social conditions
Laws	Supported by codified social sanctions. If you violate the laws you will be arrested and punished
ABC's	Attitudes behaviors conditions
Attitudes	belief system extreme political attitude mental illness Religion, radical political views
Behavioral	deviant for outward actions become deviant (behavioral) they become deviant because of social definitional process that give unequal rights to powerful and dominant groups in society
Conditions	being born in to certain situations that a person acquire. deviant socioeconomic status such as being poor or ultra rich, person of color in a dominantly white society, physical disabilities.
three categories of S's	sin sick selected
ascribed deviant status	based on conditions they acquire from birth and being extremely poor or ultra rich
DSMV	diagnostic statistical manual of disorders (road rage, internet addiction disorder, self injury, child hyperactivity)
communities	cultural space that develops its min ethos
2 competing forces in a comunity	1. those forces which promote high degree of conformity among the people in the community so that they know what to expect. 2. Encourage certain degree of diversity so that people can deploy across the rang of group spaces to survey it's potential, measure its capcity, and patrol its boundaries.
Negative deviance	deals with nonconformity or under conformity that is positively evaluated
Rate busting	involves over conformity or hyper conformity that is negatively evaluated
Positive deviance	has to do with over conforming or hyper conformity that is positively evaluated
4 ways to define deviance	absolutist approach statistical approach normative/objective approach reactivist/subjectivist approach
absolutist approach	absolute standard of behavior that core moral and good, any deviation from these standards constitute deviance
Statistical approach	defines deviance as attitude behaviors or conditions that are statistacally rare
Normative/Objective approach	focus on the violation of norms
reactivist/subjectivist approach	focus on the dynamics of the reaction and evaluation of social audience
intergrated typology of deviance	intergrated the normative and the reactivist definition of deviance treats the distinction as a false dichotomy and knowledge that both norms of behavior and social actions and evaluations exist
negative deviance	can range from behavior of most demands to that of the mentally ill to the behavior of substance abusers, to that of individuals with unpopular religions or political stances
Positively evaluated	labeled such under conformity the John Gotti phenomenon
interactionist perspective	defines deviance as the infraction of some agreed-upon rule. Who breaks rules and to search factors in their personalities and life situations that might account for the infraction
Hendershot	absolutist perspective on defining deviance - morally based view on what is right and wrong morally based written laws that stretch from community to community over history
Durkheim	deviance is an integral part of all societies because it affirms cultural norms and values
medicalization of deviance	it infers that removing intent or motive relieves us from the human element in the decisions we make, the actions we take, and the social structures we create.
anomie	the state of normaleness
Philip Rieff	psychological man was replacing christian man
Quinney	definition of deviance stems from those who has the power. the dominant class and the class they dominate
social reality of crime	think of crime as it is affected by dynamics that mold society's social, economic, and political structure
official definition of crime	crime as a legal definition of human conduct is created by agents of the dominant class in the politically organized society
formulating definition of crime	definitions of crime are composed of behaviors that conflict with the interests of the dominant class
applying definitions of crime	definitions of crime are applied by the class that has the power to shape the enforcement and administration of criminal lawy
How behavior patterns develop in relation to definitions of crime	behavior patters are structured in relation to definitions of crime, and within this context people engage in actions that have relative probabilities of being defined as criminal.
constructing an ideology of crime	an ideology of crime is constructed and diffused by the dominant class to secure it hegomony
constructing the social reality of crime	the social reality of crime is constructed by the formulation and application of definitions of crime, development of behavior patterns in relation to these definitions of an ideology of crime.

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