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Flashcards by amatthews1, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Somatotypes | Body builds though to be related to certain personality characteristics or temperaments |
| Brain Studies | Popular in the 1930's. These studies suggested that some people might cease their deviant ways if their brains were surgically altered. |
| Chronic deviants | People who are unresponsive to treatments |
| Operant conditioning | Examining the way behavior modification or human conditioning can lead individuals to commit crime. |
| Structural perspective | Locates the root cause of crime and deviance outside of individuals, in the invisible social structure that make up any society. |
| Structuralists blame cause of crime on which two factors? | The differential opportunity structure and prejudice and discrimination towards certain groups |
| 3 Types of Deviant Opportunities | Criminal, conflict and retreatist |
| Interactionist perspective | Deal with real flesh and blood people in specific times and places. They look at how people actually encounter specific others, and they look at the influence of these others. |
| Key feature of Interactionist perspective | Deviant behavior is socially learned, and not just from anyone, but from people's most intimate friends and family members. |
| Drift theory | The movement into deviant subcultures occurs through a process of drift, as people gradually leave their old crowd and become enmeshed in a circle of deviant associates. |
| Types of Individual Adaption | 1. Conformity 2. Innovation 3. Ritualism 4. Retreatism 5. Rebellion |
| Youthful delinquency | The age where most deviation from the norms that generally occur. |
| Control Theories | Delinquent acts result when an individual's bond to society is weak or broken. |
| Elements of the bond | 1. Attachment 2. Commitment 3. Involvement 4. Belief |
| Feminist Theory | Patriarchal structure of society responsible for the discrimination and oppression of women |
| Official statistics | Numerical tabulations compiled by government officials and employees of social service agencies int he course of doing their job |
| Survey Research | A source of statistical data, can inquire into instances of various behavior but it can also collect information about people's attitudes. |
| Field research | Sociological fieldworkers live with members of deviant groups and become intimately familiar with their lives. |
| Macro | "big picture" view of deivance |
| Symbolic Interactionism | Individual v. Institutional |
| Constructionism | Blending of labeling and conflict theories |
| Anomie | Lack of an individuals personal norms, values, beliefs and is often referred to as normalness. |
| Two dimensions of social bond | 1. Social integration 2. Social regulation |
| Social integregation | Attachment to groups and institutions |
| Social regulation | Adherence to the norms and values of society |
| Types of suicide | 1. Altruistic 2. Egotistic 3. Anomic |
| Altruistic | Death for the good of the group |
| Egoistic | Death for the removal of the self either due to lack of ties to others |
| Anomic | Death for the confounding of self interests and societies norms |
| Neutralization | Deviants will rationalize behaviors or conditions as okay. |
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