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| the act of a person repeating and undesirable act |
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| an act that is considered by the public consensus or by the powerful at a given place and time to be a violation of some social rule. |
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| letting deviance out in some facets can prevent worse deviance later |
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family (in a rural or less populated society)
police (in an urban setting) |
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| wrongdoer is ostracized from society. Tends to promote more deviance. |
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| shaming someone but also loving them and welcoming them back into society. "hating the crime, loving the criminal". Discourages secondary crime. |
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| a social condition in which norms are absent, weak, or in conflict |
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| the mental problem characterized by a persistent fear, anxiety, or worry about trivial matters |
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| the mental problem typified by loss of touch with reality |
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| norm violations that a person commits for the first time and without considering them deviant |
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| repeated norm violations that the violators themselves recognize as deviant |
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| feeling unable to achieve a relatively high aspiration |
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| medicalization of deviance |
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| diagnosing and treating deviant behavior as a disease |
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| marginal surplus population |
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| marxist term for unemployed workers who are superfluous or useless to the economy |
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who: Durkheim
What: Deviance is good for society. It defines societal norms. Induces social change. Acts like a safety valve |
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| Strain Theory/Anomie Theory |
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who: Merton
what: Deviance is integral to society. Merton Typology.
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Who: Hirschi
What: People who are more bonded to society are less likely to commit crime |
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who: Braithwaite
what: disentegrative shaming vs. integrative shaming
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who: Becker and Lemmert
what: primary deviance vs. secondary deviance. People are a lot less likely to commit crime after they find out its not okay
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who: Thio
what: most serious deviance comes from most powerful and wealthy people
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who: Marx
what: the rich and powerful make the rules so that it is impossible for everyone else to get ahead, forcing them to commit deviance. |
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what: deviants view their deviance as a positive thing
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who: Sutherland
what: people acquire ideas about deviance through interaction with others
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