An ideal standard of behavior to which people conform to a greater or lesser extent.
What is a norm?
100
It is said that this type of deviance serves a purpose for society.
What is functional deviance?
100
A sense of normlessness or deregulation in society
What is anomie?
100
Your family and close friends typically belong to this group.
What is the intra-group?
100
This type of shaming is said to have positive impacts on the deterrence of future deviant behavior.
What is reintegrative shaming?
200
Any behavior or physical appearance that is socially challenged and condemned because it departs from the norms and expectations of a group.
What is deviance?
200
A violation of norms stemming from original causes, which may be any of several social, situational, physiological, and psychological factors.
What is primary deviance?
200
This theory focuses on the audience, where people and their behavior are defined.
What is labeling theory?
200
This phase involves the rationalization of behavior by all groups.
What is justification?
200
This theorist said deviance is inherent in capitalism and interpreted deviance from an economic standpoint.
Who is Karl Marx?
300
This can be viewed as a combination of scientific method, a search for pathology, and the application of treatment based on scientific findings.
What is positivism?
300
The most costly offense committed by individuals in the United States.
What is employee theft?
300
Holds the belief that crime is caused by the disjunction between the goals for success that people set for themselves and the available means by which those goals might be achieved.
What is strain theory?
300
This phase involves self-doubt, where the deviant is chipped away, which could be symbolic or physical.
What is enclosure?
300
This group contains those you are most likely be victimized by.
Who are people you know (family/friends/acquaintances)?
400
This is societal and/or political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group.
What is social control?
400
Scholars in this area believe that law should be applied to all persons in an equal manner.
What is the classical school?
400
This can be viewed as a source of deviant behavior and also contribute to deviance by providing support for deviant behavior.
What is a subculture of deviance?
400
This phase involves the self and also rehabilitation, termination, or institutionalization.
What is disposition?
400
This process involves labeling or stereotyping others.
What is typification?
500
A condition of societies in which individuals are densely trapped in interdependencies, which have the special qualities of mutual help and trust.
What is communitarianism?
500
When a person begins to employ his deviant behavior or role based on it as a means of defense, attack, or adjustment to the overt and covert problems created by the consequent societal reaction to him.
What is secondary deviance?
500
"A person becomes delinquent because of an excess of definitions favorable to violation of law over definitions unfavorable to violation of law" is the key proposition of this theory.
What is differential association theory?
500
An example of one of these is being labeled as an ex-con.
What is a symbolic enclosure?
500
Name and describe the deviant worlds.
What are the underworld, the underside world, the fringe world, the straight world, and the upperworld.