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Flashcards by Lisa Shannon, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Lisa Shannon
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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