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Functionalist Perspectives
Relativist Perspectives
Social Power Perspectives
Odds 'n' Ends
Potent Potables
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These are the four categories, or typologies, of deviance, as proposed by Heckert and Heckert, with at least one of them helping to show that not all deviance is bad.
What is Negative Deviance; Rate-Busting; Deviance Admiration; and Positive Deviance?
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Becker talked about how people develop tastes for deviant activities, and then join into groups with similar tastes, in the process of creating a _____ _______.
What is a deviant career?
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This theory looks at the inequality of criminality, like when money-making capitalists aren't charged for crimes they commit as a business, but when poor people are charged for crimes they commit like robberies and drug offenses.
What is conflict theory?
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Two-parter: First, this is a deviant trait that you are born with, like perhaps being born bright purple. Second, this is a deviant trait that you earn, like painting yourself bright purple before a football game.
What is ascribed deviance? What is achieved deviance?
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This, simply put, is any derivation from the common norm.
What is Deviance?
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This is how Functionalists think of both positive and negative deviance.
What is positive deviance leads to advances in society, and negative deviance leads to people bonding together against the deviant.
200
Wearing a toupee to convince people you're not bald is an example of this technique, as written about by Goffman.
What is stigma management?
200
Two parter: This is the the idea that men are superior and should take charge. This is a dominating, institutionalized system, that reinforces the above view.
What is patriarchy? What is sexism?
200
Merton talked about these five ways of dealing with the strain of living in our modern society.
What are Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, and Rebellion?
200
Daily Double!!!
What is anomie?
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This theory says that people look to their friends to teach them how to commit deviance, and learn their friends' values and attitudes towards authority
What is differential association theory?
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This theoretical perspective does not focus on the deviant act itself, but instead focuses on the process in which people are called deviant, and the effects that has on them.
What is Labeling theory?
300
This theoretical perspective examines patriarchal structures, identifies causes of women's oppression, and pushes for a more egalitarian society.
What is Feminist Theory?
300
The idea that some groups of people are inherently born with traits that make them criminal is an example of this school of thought.
What is the biological perspective?
300
This theory asks why people conform - not why people break laws
What is social control theory?
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Positivists usually study deviance through these methods; On the other hand, relativists usually study deviance through these methods.
What is using statistics, official surveys, and crime rates, and treating deviance like a social fact? What is field work, ethnomethodologies, and understanding the lived experience of deviants?
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This theoretical perspective emphasizes interpretation, meaning-assigning, and how society makes sense of "deviant" individuals.
What is Social Constructionism?
400
Daily Double!
What is Ferguson, MO?
400
These are what folkways, mores, and laws refer to.
What is 1) a norm of society that is common; 2) a deeply held moral belief in society; and 3) a codified deeply held belief (i.e., in law).
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This theory about why crime occurs talks about how people can't reach the goals of society, and therefore commit deviant acts. Two-part question: the theory is called this, the goals of society are called this.
What is strain theory? What is The American Dream Ideology?
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If we forget this, according to Hendershott, we will soon become an anomic society, prone to moral panics.
What is the morality of deviance?
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These are the five stages of Konty's labeling and institutionalization of deviance process, in order.
What are 1) Original Act; 2) Application of Label of Deviant; 3) Input into Institution; 4) Socialization into Deviant Communities; and 5) Differential Treatment by Society;
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Quinney's conflict theory, in a nutshell, consists of 3 elements:
What is 1) definitions of criminality are made by those in charge, 2) who then reinforce laws 3) until they become part of popular thought.
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These are the four pillars of Hirschi's control theory.
What are attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief?
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Hating Mexicans, throwing rocks at women, and being bald at age ten are examples of these three elements of deviance.
What are Attitudes, Behaviors, and Conditions?