Terms
Deviance
VERSUS
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Any transgression of socially established norms
social deviance
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TRUE OR FALSE: What is considered deviant has very little clear basis in biology
TRUE It is socially constructed!
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norms and things like "shushing" and the "stink eye", vs laws and punishments
informal vs. formal sanctions
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A set of relations, a set of diads, held together by ties between individuals
Social network
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Group size is fundamental to to forming the quality of that group
Georg Simmel
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An individual's position in a stratified social order
Socio-economic status
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The act of abiding by society's norms or simply following the rules of group life
Normative compliance (social compliance)
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cohesion based on the sameness of society's parts, vs based on the interdependence of specialized parts or machines
Mechanical solidarity vs. organic solidarity
200
People like people who are like them, and people like people who they spend time with, and people you spend time with become more like you
homophily
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Everyone in America is within six relationships of another person (six degrees of separation)
Milgram
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Politically based system of stratification based on limited mobility
estate system (feudalism)
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The set of mechanisms that create normative compliance in individuals
Social control
300
Minor transgressions of norms, compared to crime or the violation of laws
informal vs formal deviance
300
Something that examines people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms.
Breaching experiment
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Dramaturgical theory ("All the world's a stage")
Erving Goffman
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What do we call a negative social label that changes your behavior toward a person, and changes that person's self-concept and social identity?
stigma
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The way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and get along on a day-to-day basis.
Social cohesion
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making a violator suffer (and thus defining the boundaries of acceptable behavior), VERSUS examining the specific circumstances of an individual transgressor and attempts to find ways to rehabilitate him or her
Punitive justice (mechanical) vs. Rehabilitative justice
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The individual emerges from one's ability to assume the point of view of others and imagine how those others see us
Looking Glass Self
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Breaching experiment, ethnomethodology
Harold Garfinkel
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Labeling theory
People see how they are labeled and accept the label as being "true" OR People behave the way that they think someone with their label should behave
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The degree to which individuals are interwoven with one another into a group
social integration
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Inequality is natural vs inequality is unnatural (Who vs. whom?)
Hobbes vs. Rousseau
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A position in society we are born with
Ascribed status
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"the individual mind can exist only in relation to other minds with shared meanings"
George Herbert Mead
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