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
The U.S. is currently experiencing a(n) ___(name of drug/class of drugs)_____ epidemic
Opiate/heroin
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
Explain one example of historical contingency in the development of drugs
Albert Hoffman invented LSD accidentally, eventually became cornerstone of 60s subculture
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 and briefly explain the four levels of analysis when analyzing drugs in social context
history, social structure, group/individual, the body
300
Tina's experiences with abuse, sex work, violence, and addiction BEST demonstrates which of Bourgois and Schonberg's concepts
Grey Zone of poverty and structural violence
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
How did the Harrison Narcotics Act (1914) pass, and what was its sociological impact?
Outlawed cocaine and heroin and made drug addiction a criminal behavior, creating a source of labeling and stereotyping.
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
What are hard targets and soft targets and how do they relate to rational choice theory?
good job!
500
The War on Drugs began during the ___(decade)___ and specifically targeted ____(drug)_____, (un?)intentionally leading to an explosion in the __________.
1970s; crack cocaine; US prison population, especially African Americans
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.