Righteous Vocab
General Dopefiend
Theories of Deviance
Moral Panics
Wild Card
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
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
100
List the three features of a moral panic according to Goode & Ben-Yehuda.
Disproportionality; Folk Devils; Timing
100
Rosenhan's “Being Sane in Insane Places” is an example of which theory of deviance?
Labeling theory
200
This describes the multiple abusive relationships and structural violence experienced uniquely by the homeless.
Lumpen abuse
200
This describes the practice of reciprocal heroin sharing among the Edgewater homeless.
The moral economy
200
This theory of deviance asserts that "choice structuring properties" and "bounded rationality" can explain criminal behavior.
Rational choice theory
200
According to lecture, the Ebola scare last year was NOT a moral panic because...
There was no folk devil
200
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
300
Likes, dislikes, and intimate ways of being formed through prolonged exposure to social structural conditions.
Habitus
300
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
This theory emphasizes that "deviance" is a product of society rather than a property of an action.
Labeling theory
300
Name 4 of the CULTURAL factors that exacerbated the satanic ritual abuse panic in the 80s and 90s.
Awareness of child sexual abuse, satanic cult survival stories, previous "satanic panics," recovered memory therapies, popularization of the occult through heavy metal music
300
This Dopefiend had the longest history of legal employment.
Hank
400
What term describes the enforcement of a racialized microgeography of homeless encampments?
Intimate Apartheid
400
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
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
Name 3 of the STRUCTURAL factors that led to the moral panic over satanic ritual abuse.
More women in the workplace, greater use of daycare by middle and upper class parents, funding of new therapies
400
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
500
This is the way that the political/economic organization of society often harms vulnerable categories of people.
Structural Violence
500
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
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
This sociologist coined the term "moral panic" in the early 70s with his study of a conflict between which two groups?
Stanley Cohen; the mods and the rockers
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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