Deviance and Social Control, Symbolic Interactionism and Deviance
Crime and Punishment
Social Structure, Social Status, and Roles
Wildcard
100
True or False:
Functionalism tells us that all deviance is negative.
What is FALSE.
Deviance can be positive (produce positive change) or negative.
100
Deviance that involves occasionally breaking norms, but not part of a daily lifestyle is
What is primary deviance?
100
Method that protects society by keeping convicted criminals in a total institution (separated from society)
What is incarceration?
100
What is a status that is neither earned nor chosen, but it is assigned?
What is ascribed status?
100
Crime committed by professionals within their job duties
What is white collar crime?
200
What kind of people commit white collar crimes?
Who are professionals, employees of high status
200
a. deviance that under conforms to norms
b. deviance that over conforms to norms
What are negative and positive deviance?
** several of you need to review this before the quiz! **
200
A punishment that expects criminals to pay compensation for their acts
What is retribution
200
Define achieved status and provide two examples.
What is a status that is earned
- teacher, sheriff, president, captain, valedictorian, etc.
200
An individual's life and identity (who they are) are organized around/consist of breaking society's norms.
What is secondary deviance?
300
Define victim discounting, explain who it affects
What is reducing the seriousness of a crime, based on who it was committed against.
Most likely to affect lower social/socioeconomic classes.
300
A trait used to characterize an individual (usually in a negative fashion)
What is a stigma
300
Reducing the seriousness of a crime due to the lower status of the victim of the crime
What is victim discounting
300
An expected behavior that is associated with a particular status is
What is a role?
300
Quarterback, fans, athletic trainer are all types of what status?
What is master status?
400
Define the strain theory, provide an example.
What is the concept that a deviant behavior is more likely to happen when there is social pressure (from social structures) to conform -> it's people straining against the social controls.
Ex: committing a crime (expectation: attending school, crime of truancy when pressure is too much)
400
A theory stating individuals learn deviance from the amount of deviant behaviors that they are exposed to.
What is Differential association theory?
400
The National Crime Victimization Survey exists because
What is the option to fill the gaps (unreported crimes) that the UCR leaves open.
400
All of the statuses that a person occupies at any given time is known as what?
What is Status set
400
Dress codes, consequences for tardies/excessive absences, recognition for complying with rules and norms are all examples of how schools use what?
What is social control?
500
What is anomie? Include an example.
What is a social condition in which norms are either weak, conflicting, or absent (in an individual or a group).
- leads to social instability
- also could be called cultural lag
Ex: Texting on a date?
500
Attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief are all
What are the basic elements of social bonds?
500
Punishments for crime BESIDES rehabilitation
What are prison and probation, community (service) based programs, diversion strategy.
500
What is the difference between ascribed and assigned status?
Ascribed status is assigned (not earned or chosen).
Achieved status IS earned or chosen.
500
A punishment where criminals are paying for their act/crime vs. desocializing and resocializing in order to delete former norms and form new ones.