Righteous Vocab
Dopefiend Characters
Deviance
Wild Card
Righteous Dopefiend
100
This is a person with whom an individual shares work, space, money, and drugs; the relationship relies on mutual reciprocity.
A running partner
100
This Edgewater group actively shunned panhandling in favor of other ways to make money
African Americans
100
This theory would account for the supervillian who weighs the pros and cons of unleashing an army of trained supermutants upon the world.
Rational Choice Theory
100
The New York Post ran a front page photo of two men they claimed to be the Boston Marathon bombers, but it was later discovered that the men pictured had nothing to do with the bombings. Despite this, the men were identified by people on the internet and suffered intense scrutiny. This demonstrates which principle of labeling theory?
Labels are powerful
100
This describes the practice of reciprocal heroin sharing among the Edgewater homeless.
The moral economy
200
This describes the multiple abusive relationships and structural violence experienced uniquely by the homeless.
Lumpen Abuse
200
This Dopefiend had the longest history of legal employment.
Hank
200
In “Becoming a Marijuana User” how does Becker propose that users come to enjoy the effects of marijuana?
Learn from other users how to recognize feelings and find them pleasurable
200
According to neoliberals, what should happen with minimum wage?
Allow the market to dictate wages
200
According to the authors, what was the purpose of Righteous Dopefiend?
"To clarify the relationships between large-scale power forces and intimate ways of being" (p. 5)
300
Likes, dislikes, and intimate ways of being formed through prolonged exposure to social structural conditions.
Habitus
300
Al and Sony are
Running Partners
300
This theory of deviance asserts that "choice structuring properties" and "bounded rationality" can explain criminal behavior.
Rational Choice Theory
300
What is the relationship between harm reduction and symbolic violence.
Harm reduction programs often shame participants and increase (or reinforce) symbolic violence
300
This is the misrecognition of inequality as the natural order of things; it leads people to blame themselves for their location in the social hierarchy.
Symbolic Violence
400
What term describes the enforcement of a racialized microgeography of homeless encampments?
Intimate apartheid
400
Who relapsed, became severely depressed, and died of an overdose?
Hogan
400
Your mother used to tell you that you shouldn't hang out with two kids down the street from you because they will be a bad influence on your behavior. Shockingly, your mother was a great sociologist who explained deviant behavior using ___________ theory.
Differential Association
400
What is the relationship between Tina and Carter?
Volatile
400
This is a political-economic ideology adopted in the 1970s emphasizing free markets, privatization, and individualism. Bourgois and Shonberg argue that it exacerbated homelessness.
Neoliberalism
500
This is the way that the political/economic organization of society often harms vulnerable categories of people.
Structural Violence
500
How did the Edgewater Homeless treat undocumented immigrants?
With hostility and often used racist language when talking about/to them.
500
This theory emphasizes that "deviance" is a product of society rather than a property of an action.
Labeling Theory
500
Rational choice theory is an example of a/n ________ theory of deviance, while labeling theory is an example of a/n ______ theory of deviance.
Objectivist; constructionist
500
Why do Bourgois and Schonberg call methadone maintenance treatment "biopower in action"? (HINT: p. 284-5)
Because methadone is more addictive than heroin and causes more severe withdrawal symptoms.
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