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| Obey culturally accepted rules(following rules) |
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| Often times crime—not following rules—often times more serious. |
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| Breaking law (more serious forms of deviance) |
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| Deviance leads to social control.. depends on the norms.. it depends more on the audience than the act itself. Depending on one’s age, culture, etc.. |
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| Differential association theory |
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| Edwin Sutherland.. people learn crime from those who they associate with. People chose deviance when the cost/benefit structure does not give them enough stake in conformity. |
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| accept goals of society but you use illegitimate means of achieving it.. (i.e cheating on exam—get good grades but cheated to get it, athlete uses drugs to achieve goal) |
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| sticks to the means to reach goal (i.e. Someone just trying to keep job.. Just shows up) |
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| rejects procedures and goals but don’t replace them (i.e. homeless people) |
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| rejects goals and means but also finds ones to replace them.. |
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Howard S. Becker.. “Deviant behavior is behavior that people label”
Moral entrepreneurs |
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| Durkheim on the functions of crime |
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1. Clarifies moral boundaries
2. Promotes social unity- i.e. 9/11 after math Americans all came together
3. Encourages social change—bad enough there will be a change. |
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| Reasons why we imprison criminals |
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Retribution (revenge, retaliation)
Reformation (rehabilitation)
Deterrence
Prevention (incapacitation) |
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Crime has been down for the last two decades
Fear of crime has gone up
$$ cost is the opposite of the media |
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| The system of production and distribution of goods and services. |
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| Work trends in the workplace |
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1. Working more jobs—people work more jobs for about the same pay or less
2. Increased hours of work—among all industrialized nations we work the longest hours
3. Less vacation time—work places look at it as a thing of the past.. Since 1985 vacation time has gone down
4. Disappearance of the line between work and private life—have to do emails etc.
5. Technology & deskilling of work—makes it more competitive (manufacturing jobs, travel agents, secretaries)
6. Longer careers—they start earlier and end later
7. The temping of the workplace |
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| Alienation (Marx, Weber, Seeman, Maslow) |
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1. Karl Marx- first workers become alienated from profit they make. Second, they are alienated from the process. Third, alienation also refers to being estranged from being creative. Fourth, alienation from other people
2. Max Weber- Depersonalization (focus on dehumanization) |
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| The ability to control people, often times even against their beliefs. |
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| Traditional authority, Rational legal authority, charismatic |
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| when the basis of authority is tradition or custom, we speak of traditional authority i.e. kings and queens |
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| based on written rules. Rational means reasonable and legal means lawful. Can be very broad or narrow. Can be very broad or narrow.. Broad- constitution narrow- lease or contract |
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| is the right to make decisions that is based on perceived extraordinary personal characteristics. |
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| Two party system.. DEM(UNDERCLASS), REP(WEALTHY) |
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| The conflict perspective on education |
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If you don’t have the smarts but do have money you can still succeed
Hidden Curriculum: Unwritten rules and behaviors taught in addition to the curriculum. |
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| Funding for education differs state to state (local taxes) |
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| Funding for education differs state to state (local taxes) |
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| Symbolic interactionism on education |
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| Focus on interactions in the classroom between students and teachers |
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| Rising mediocrity and falling standards |
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| US does worse as we go up in grade level. |
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| Push through even if they didn’t fully get it |
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| When you can’t read or write well. |
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| The rising cost of education |
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| Education is more money than medical prices |
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Become a big problem..
Columbine shooting
Left scars for everyone
sandhook |
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