Foundations of Deviance
A violation of contextual, cultural, or social norms
What is Deviance?
The Theorist who believed that deviance is a necessary part of a successful society.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
A violation of norms that does not result in any long-term effects on the individual’s self-image or interactions with others.
What is Primary deviance?
A behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions.
What is Crime?
An arrangement of practices and behaviors on which society’s members base their daily lives.
What is Social order?
Deviance may be considered “in the eye of the beholder”.
What is culturally relative?
The Theory that suggests access to socially acceptable goals plays a part in determining whether a person conforms or deviates.
What is Strain Theory?
Deviance that occurs when a person’s self-concept and behavior begin to change after his or her actions are labeled as deviant by members of society.
What is Secondary deviance?
Codes that maintain formal social control through laws.
What are Legal codes?
The regulation and enforcement of norms.
What is Social control?
Whether an act is labeled deviant or not depends on many factors, including location, the individual committing the act, and.
What is the audience?
The Theory that is a theory that asserts crime occurs in communities with weak social ties and the absence of social control.
What is Social Disorganization Theory?
The crimes committed by average people against other people or organizations, usually in public spaces.
What is street crime?
A system that has the authority to make decisions based on law.
What is Court?
The means of enforcing rules.
What are sanctions?
•What Sociologist stated, "there is deviance in all of us"?
Who is Howard Becker.
Theory that suggests that social and economic factors are the causes of crime and deviance
What is Conflict Theory?
The crime committed by workers in a business environment or sometimes by people acting in a similar manner or on their behalf.
What is Corporate crimes?
A system that supervises individuals who have been arrested, convicted, and sentenced for a criminal offense.
What is Corrections system?
Punishments for violating the norms.
What are Negative snctions?
These sexual acts were criminalized by all states until the 1960s and 1970s
What is LGBTQ?
The theory that suggests that ascribing of a deviant behavior to another person by members of society.
What is Labelling Theory?
The illegal acts with no clear victim, such as drug use or gambling.
What are Victimless crimes?
When people who are released from incarceration and must accept supervision and refrain from certain activities.
What is Parole?
Sanctions that are officially recognized and enforced.
What are Formal sanctions?