Details Title: Crime And Deviance - Functionalists Description: What functionalists say about C+D Total Flash Cards: 17 Created: 09/21/2009 05:44:39		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Sociology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Deviance Definition Actions which deviate from the norms and values of society. Term Crime Definition A form of deviance that breaks the law. Term Durkheim Definition Too much or too little crime is bad. Crime is necessary. Reinforces Boundaries, shared norms and social order Promotes Social Solidarity. Allows change to happen. Term Davis Definition "Prostitution is functional to society." Provides sexual satisfaction without threatening the family.   Term Criticisms Of Durkheim Definition How much crime is healthy? Why does crime exist in the first place? What about the victim? Increase of fear - loss of social solidarity. Term Merton - Strain Theory Definition 1930's - Studied the American Dream. Anyone can make it to the top = pressure for W.C Find other ways of getting money - Crime! Conformists, Ritualists, Retreatists, Innovators, and Rebels. Term Criticisms of Merton's Strain Theory Definition Too deterministic - not all working class deviate. Uses Official Statistics - Working class look bad. Not everyone wants the American Dream Focuses on monetary crime (Cohen) ignores vandalism ect. Term Cohen Definition Criticises Merton. Working class boys are faced with anomie in middle class schools Status Frustration = reject middle class values, create own deviant subculture, and turn society upside down. Term Organic Anology Definition How the human body works like society. Term Collective Conscience Definition Shared beliefs. Term Anomie Definition Normlessness. Term Marginalisation Definition People on the outskirts of society, e.g drug addicts, the underclass. Term Social Construction Definition Definitions and meanings constructed in the course of social interaction. Term Situational Deviance Definition Deviance differs in different cultures. Term Cloward and Ohlin Definition Argue with Merton - there is lack of opportunities for w/c boys. Depends on social environment. Criminal Subcultures, Retreatist Subcultures, Conflict Subcultures. Term Criticisms of Cloward and Ohlin Definition Ignore crimes of wealthy Deterministic Too specific - some subcultures overlap Not everyone has the same mainstream goal. Term Matza - Delinquence and Drift Definition 2 Values - Conventional And Subterranean. Neutralisation - Denial of responsibility, Denial of the victim, Denial of injury, Condemnation of condemers, Appeal to higher loyalties. Drift - not adult nor child, drift in and out of subterranean values due to lack of control of life.