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SOCY Test 3
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/21/2013

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Primary Deviation
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The deviant behavior of a person who is a conformist in most of his or her life's organization. Their deviant behavior is so trivial and successful conceived, they are never publicly declared as deviant
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Secondary Deviation
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When one has been publicly identified as a deviant, legitimation of deviance
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Lambroso
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Italian criminologist, thought that criminals had distinctive physical features
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Endomorphs
Definition
People who are athletic and muscular
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Ectomorphs
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People who are thin and bony
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Mesomorphs
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People who are soft and round- tent to be more deviant
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Group deviation
Definition
when an entire group of people together engage in deviant acts, drug subculture
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Concept of Social Order
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system of people, relationships, and customs operating smoothly to accomplish the work of a society
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Social Control
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describes all the means and processes whereby a society seeks conformity to its expectations
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Eric Fromm
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If a society is to function efficiently, its members must require a kind of character which makes them want to act in a way they have to act, as members of a society. They must have the desire to do what is objectively necessary for them to do
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Argot
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source of creating a barrier between a subcultural group and the rest of society
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Social Deviation
Definition
lack of conformity to certain rules of society
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