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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
05/08/2012

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Social Control
Definition
Consists of the forces and processes that encourage conformity, including self-control, informal control, and formal control.
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Internalization
Definition
Occurs when individuals accept the norms and values of their group and make conformity to these norms part of their self-concept.
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Informal Social Control
Definition
Self-restraint excercised because of fear of what others will think.
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Formal Social Controls
Definition
Administrative sanctions such as fines, expulsion, or imprisonment.
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Deviance
Definition
Norm violations that exceed the tolerance level of the community and result in negative sanctions.
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Anomie
Definition
Situation in which the norms of society are unclear or no longer applicable to current conditions.
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Strain Theory
Definition
Suggests the deviance occurs when culturally approved goals cannot be reached by culturally approved means.
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Collective Efficacy
Definition
The extent to which individuals in a neighborhood share the expectation that neighbors will intervene to stop social disorder and deviane and will work together to maintain social order.
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Differential Association Theory
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Argues that people learn to be deviant when more of their associates favor deviance than favor conformity.
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Deterrence Theories
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Siggest the deviance results when social sanctions, formal and informal, provide insufficient rewards for conformity.
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Labeling Theory
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Concerned with the processes by which labels such as deviant come to be attached to specific people and specific behaviors.
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Moral Entrepreneaurs
Definition
People who attempt  to create and enforce new definitions of morality.
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Medicalization of Deviance
Definition
The process through which "badness" or oddness is redifined as illness, such as the historic change from thinking of problem drinking as a crime to thinking of it as a mental illness known as alcoholism.
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Crime
Definition
The behavior that is subject to legal or civil penalties
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Victimless Crimes
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Examples: Drug use, prostitution, gambling, and pornography.

 

Voluntary exchanges between persons who desire illegal goods or services from each other.

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White-collar crime
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Crimes committed by respectable people of high status in the course of their occupation.
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Family
Definition
Relatively permanent group of persons linked together in social roles by ties of blood, adoption, marriage or quasi-marital commitment and who live together and cooperate economically and in the rearing of children.
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Marriage
Definition
Institutionalized social structure that provides an enduring framework for regulating sexual behavior and childbearing.
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Extended Family
Definition
A family in which a couple and their children live with other kin, such as the wife's or husband's parents or siblings.
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Nuclear Family
Definition
A family in which a couple and their children form an independent household living apart from other kin.
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Monogamy
Definition
A marriage in which there is only one wife and one husband.
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Polygamy
Definition
Any form of marriage in which a person may have more than one spouse at a time.
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Rites of Passage
Definition
Formal rituals that mark the ned of one age status and the beginning of another.
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Propinquity
Definition
Spatial nearness
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Homogamy
Definition
The tendency to choose a mate similar in status to oneself.
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Endogamy
Definition
The practice of choosing a mate from within one's own racial, ethnic, or religious group.
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Deinstitutionalization of Marriage
Definition
The gradual disintegration of the social norms that undergird the need for marriage, the meaning of marriage, and expectations regarding marital roles.
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Divorce Rate
Definition
Calculated as the number of divorces each year per 1,000 married women.
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Divorce Probability
Definition
The estimated probability that a marriage will ever end in divorce within a given time period.
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