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| An act considered by public conscious or by the powerful at a given time and place to be a violation of some social rule.Deviance is a violation of a social norm. Determining whether an act violates this norm is determined by three main factors: time, place, and public consensus or power. |
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| Personal crime involving non-strangers. Takes place on weekends, lower class offenders.Guns are the most popular form of conduction Homicide |
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| Drug Use Deviance Characteristics |
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| Tend to be poor (help with coping, tend to ease their lives, and make them feel like they have a sense of purpose. Note: easy to access drugs) |
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| Pornography deviance characteristics |
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“Obscene or sexually explicit materials in the media”
Erotic nonviolent porn is not harmful, but violent porn is. |
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| Corporate Crime deviance characteristics |
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| Corporate crime is more profitable. Corporate offenders don’t see themselves as criminals, and society does little to punish them. |
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| Mental Problems deviance characteristics |
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| The poor are the most common people with mental problems because they’re stressed, and are more likely to move into lower class housing |
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| Typified by loss of touch with reality |
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| Characterized by a persistent fear, anxiety, or worry about trivial matters |
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| Homophobia deviance characteristics |
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“Prejudice and discrimination against gays and lesbians”
Most Americans reject the lifestyle of them, but support their civil rights.Considered a deviance due to seeking love and pleasure over procreation |
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| The six types of deviances |
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| Homicide, drug use, pornography, corporate crime, mental problems, and homophobia |
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| Durkheim: Functionalist Theory? |
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Deviance can serve as a number of factors in a society
(Enhance conformity: See what the boundaries are between what is right and what is wrong, strengthen Solidarity:helps to combine the healthy in the society,provides a safety valve: Lets out tension in a mundane schedule, and induce social change: Martin Luther King Junior, Gandhi) |
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| Robert Merton: Strain Theory? |
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| Says that the United States societies emphasize the importance of success without providing equal opportunities to achieving it, due to deviance. There's a gap between goals and responses (conformity, innovation, ritualism, and retreatism) |
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| “Normlessness,” is a social condition in which norm as are absent, weak, or in conflict |
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Travis Hirschi: Control Theory?
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| States that social control leads to conformity and therefore, the absence of control causes deviance.Hirschi states that the absence of control arises from the lack of social bonds. |
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| Marginal Surplus Population |
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| Superfluous or useless to the economy- and they are compelled to commit property crimes to survive |
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| Showing disapproval to remorse in the wrongdoer |
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| The wrongdoer is punished in such a way as to be stigmatized, rejected, or ostracized in effect, banished from conventional society |
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| Is more positive, and involves making wrongdoers feel guilty while showing them understanding, forgiveness, or even respect |
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| The powerful are more likely to engage in profitable deviance than the powerless are in unprofitable deviance because the powerful have a stronger deviant motivation, greater deviant opportunity, and a weaker social control |
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| Feeling unable to achieve relatively high aspirations |
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| Feminist Theory of Deviance? |
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| The conventional theories are only relevant to men (woman are often times the victims of deviance) |
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| Differential Association? |
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| “ The process of acquiring through interaction with others” |
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| “ It’s alright to steal when you’re poor” |
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| Labeling one as a deviant human, may further their need to be deviant |
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| To refer to these violations of norm as that a person commits for the first time and without considering them deviant (children breaking windows, playing hooky etc.)(- Edwin Lemett) |
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| A criminal or wrongdoer who offends multiple times |
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| To refer to such repeated norm violations, which the violators themselves recognize as deviant (conformed or career deviance) |
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| We understand deviance better by looking into people’s subjective interpretations of their own deviant experiences. Deviants have a positive view on themselves |
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| “Is the process by which individuals are pressured by society to conform to social norms” |
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| Medicalization of Deviance: |
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| “Diagnosing and treating deviant behavior as a disease” (Hyperactivity in school children results in ADHD pills).Medicine is a social institution is used to control what is considered unwillfull deviance by diagnosing and treating it as a disease |
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| Human with a muscular body shape |
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| A round body frame with highly fatty tissue |
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| A person with a lean and delicate body frame |
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| Elisabeth Kubler- Ross: “Responses to deep emotional loss” (five stages) |
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1st stage theory: Initial Denial (Not me!)
2nd Stage: Anger at everyone (why me?)
3rd Stage: Bargaining (Give me just a little more time!)
4TH Stage: Depression + Despair
5TH Stage: Acceptance |
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| Steps to becoming Resocalized (three steps) |
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| Desocialization – Resocialzation--- Reification |
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Resocialization (five stages) |
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First Stage: Bond to new member of the group
Second Stage: Screen at weaker members
Third Stage: Clarifies social status and roles
Fourth Stage: Sustains cultural traditions
Fifth Stage: Instructs new members |
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