a violation of significant social norms

1. biological

2. phsycological

What is the sociological reasoning for crime and deviant behaviors against

society?

Functionalist

-social strain theory "poverty breeds crime"

-anomie = laws do not work (chaos)

-imbalance between social gain(material) and social means (hard work)

-Learning theory (we learn norms the same way we learn crimes)

-Learn unfavorable definition of laws (justification, rationalization)

-no cause of crime, only process

-influential/moral entrepreneurs have the ability to make beliefs the standard

-depending on class = perception of behavior

We use institutions to maintain position of advantage

-economy(capitalism) leads to unequal classes leads to structure of power

-Believes everyone if capable of criminal things

-people who don't commit crimes, live within conformity

-attachment to a social bond keeps us connected to conventional life

retribution:vengeance from the court

incapacitation

deterrence:punish enough to disuade

rehabilitation:sentencing someone to help them

(men vs. women)

valued judgement on different groups

-slavery

-caste: no way to get out of status

-avg. family does not only spend 1/3 on food

-nutrition on emergency conditions doesn't do the job

-the gross amount doesn't count in net worth

• working poor
• discriminated women
• minorities
• children/under age of 18
• elderly

-the poor don't work

-all poor are on welfare

(really only 1/3)

• veterans
• drug addicts
• families
• mentally disabled
• unskilled

-physical differences between men and women

(chromosomal, hormones, anatomical)

-cultural differences

(personality, and thinking/emotional patterns)

If you lose it, you lose you.

(Freud)

-"rule by the father"

-belief that men are "it"

-the less aggression we value = less patriarchy

-people make investments in education, experience, job training

- "women don't invest aggressively in their human capital"

-equal playing field = NO!

What is the "glass escalator"?

-social vulnerability

-domestic violence

-femicide (the murder of women)

-Quid pro Quo (this for that)

-unwelcome/hostile enviornment

-receives complaints of institutional sexual harrassment

-"disclosure"=woman on man harrassment

-rot of targets come from POWER

-parenting

-super moms/"second shift"

-physical differences/traits that society believes are significant

-distinguished by ethnicity(cultural differences)

-persons who've traveled from somewhere else

-have a serious level of disadvantage

1. racism

2. prejudice

3. discrimination

What is the biological  

ranking/rationalization of different people?

-certain people have different levels of intellectual capability

-self fulfilling prophesy

What is the institutional (underground)

ranking/rationalization of different people?

-rigid attitude about a group

-stereotypes, scapegoats, generalizations, and enthocentrism

1. legal: unequal treatment that is supported by the law

2. institutional

3. individual: hate crimes as a result of discrimination

-organization that prevents institutional discrimination

-gives preference to particular groups

-give quota for certain percentage of minorities

1. the average age has never been this high

2. people are living longer

-senescence (aches, pains, etc.)

-tested well in crystallized knowledge (situational)

-an overwhelming feeling of falling apart

-worries of not thinking/reasoning in the same way

-no clinical evidence of break down

- a person is going to have a more pleasant life if they stay uninvolved from younger activities

-your place in trying to achieve descends due to deprivation of opportunity that you once had (economically)

-our elderly experience is based on the meaning that we give our lives

-the elderly create the roles that they want to play in order to maintain continuity in their relationships

-they all live in nursing homes

-all are senile

-are unproductive workers

-there is automatically an intellectual breakdown

-health

-fewer responses from the medical system

-work and retirment

-social isolation leads to dependency which leads to suicide

-batching in a group = unproductive because it deprives society of contribution from that group

-the figure out how many workers it takes to support one retiree

-societies organized response to social problems

-essential but does not mean it maintains the same face

-universal

-forms economic stability

-care for the young

-related through blood, marriage, or ancestry

-a socially accepted sexual union

family of procreation

vs.

a family of orientation

family that one establishes as mother and father

vs.

family that you are born into

monogamy

vs.

polygamy

one partner for life

vs.

multiple partners

extended family

vs.

nuclear family

(cousins and aunts)

vs.

immediate members only help and is very consistent with modern society

-divorce

-interactive effect between children, mother and father