Vocabulary
This is the term for people who share inherited physical characteristics.
What is Race?
This group is the fastest growing minority group in the United States.
What are Latinos?
A person who violates the norms of society.
What is a deviant?
Job-related crimes committed by high-status people is called this.
What is white-collar crime?
These can be positive or negative and are used to exert external social control.
What are social sanctions?
The name for people differentiated from the dominant group in society.
What are Minority?
Jews in the United States are an example of this type of minority.
What is ethnic minority?
This type of deviance is where a person over-conforms to the norms of society.
What is positive deviance?
Of the following, which is considered a victim-less crime; robbery, extortion, illegal gambling, or fraud.
What is illegal gambling?
Shared beliefs or characteristics is a feature of this.
What is a Majority?
This is the systematic effort to destroy an entire population.
What is Genocide?
Of the following: skin color, birthplace, schooling, or language is part of the definition of an ethnic minority is this.
What is Language?
This type of deviance is where the norms of society are rejected.
What is negative deviance?
Tax evasion is an example of this type of crime.
What is white-collar crime?
Prejudice is an opinion, where discrimination is this.
What is an act?
This is the term for judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Prejudice is an opinion, where discrimination is this.
What is an Act?
Primary deviance is different from secondary deviance in that is happens all the time or once in a while.
What is once in a while?
A plumber has stolen thousands of dollars from individuals by installing substandard plumbing fixtures. The judge says the plumber must pay for new fixtures for the people's homes, this is an example of what?
What is restitution?
Punishment intended to make criminals pay monetary compensation to make up for the financial damage caused by their acts is called this.
What is restitution?
This term means the blending of a minority group into the dominant group.
What is Assimilation?
Historically, many African Americans in southern states were denied the right to vote by government officials who treated them differently than whites: example, required them to pass complex exams to be able to vote. This is an example of
What is Institutional discrimination?
Ideas of this can change from one social context to another.
What is deviance?
This is the term for an illegal act motivated by extreme prejudice.
What is hate crime?
This is an undesirable label that may adversely affect a person.
What is a stigma?