SOCIAL CONTROL
The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society
What is Social Control?
Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
What is deviance?
The condition in which members of a society enjoy different amounts of wealth, prestige or power.
What is social inequality?
The structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power.
What is stratification?
A group that is set apart form other because of obvious physical differences.
What is a racial group?
A type of control carried out by authorized agents (e.g. police)
What is formal social control?
Violation of criminal law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties.
What is a crime?
We use income, job prestige and educational attainment to determine an individuals what.
What is socio-economic status?
A system of stratification in which people are owned by other people.
What is slavery?
a group set apart from others primarily because of distinct cultural patterns.
What is an ethnic group?
Penalty or reward for conduct concerning a social norm
What is a sanction?
A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts
What is differential association?
The set of cultural beliefs and practices that supports powerful social, economic, and political interests
What is dominant ideology?
A hereditary systems of rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be fixed and immobile.
What is a caste system?
Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.
What is a stereotype?
Going along with peers of equal status.
What is conformity?
Differences in the way social control is exercised over different groups
What is Differential Justice?
A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society ,whatever their lifestyles, are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.
What is relative poverty?
movement of individuals or groups form one position in a society's stratification system to another.
What is social mobility?
The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individiuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.
What is institutionalized racism?
An experiment intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner".
What is the Milgram experiment?
A type of deviance in which the in which the individual accepts societies goals but pursues them with means regarded as improper. (e.g. drug dealing)
What is innovation?
A sociological perspectives that suggest inequality is necessary so that people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions.
What is the Davis and Moore Thesis?
A social position “assigned” to a person by society without regard for that person’s unique talents or characteristics.
What is an ascribed status?
A theory that states that interracial contact between people of equal status who are engaged in cooperative task will cause them to become less prejudiced.
What is contact hypothesis?