Socioeconomic
Disadvantages that relate to access to material needs.
What is Economic Deprivation?
The act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms
What is Conformity?
Difficult emotions produced by stressors, such as anger and frustration
What are Negative Affective States?
A form of memory that causes us to make associations without our conscious
knowledge
What is Priming?
Shifting between values that are deviant or criminal and values that are culturally accepted
What is Drift?
The perception or reality of care or assistance from others in managing stressors
What is Social Support?
The prejudicial treatment of an individual based on his or her membership in a certain group
What is Discrimination?
Justifications for behaviors that may not be accepted by others
What is Rationalization?
The disapproval of a person because they do not fit the require social norms that are given in society
What is Social Stigma?
The impact of others on our beliefs, values, and behavior
What is Social Influence?
The perception that one is disadvantaged when compared to others
What is Relative Deprivation?
Labeling by a parent as deviant, often involving negative consequences to the person being labeled
What is Parental Labeling?
The view that crime results from a person of less economic means feeling frustrated with what they cannot obtain
What is Strain Theory
A form of social influence in which a person accepts instructions or orders from an authority figure
What is obedience?
Values and behaviors that promote crime
What are Procriminal definitions?
Segment of population whose members share similar economic level, attitudes,
values, norms, and identifiable lifestyle.
What is Social Class?
A prediction that, by being voiced, causes itself to come true
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
Events or situations that lead to a stress response, often involving a sense of feeling out of control
What are Stressors?
Disapproval of oneself as a result of internalizing the disapproval of others
What is Self-Stigma?
The process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it.
What is Socialization?
A state of living without basic necessities.
What is Absolute Deprivation?
Process of recasting past actions in light of a current deviant identity.
What is Retrospective labeling?
Strategies for dealing with problems in life
What are Coping Skills?
A belief about a group of individuals that people apply to any given individual.
What is Stereotype?
Social Class
What is a segment of population whose members share similar economic level, attitudes, values, norms, and identifiable lifestyle?