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CONCEPTS
WHO SAID WHAT
ANALYTICAL APPROACHES TO DEVIANCE
APPLICATIONS
CASE STUDIES
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This term refers to a state of normlessness that occurs during a period of social change and disorder
What is anomie?
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"To classify crime among the phenomena of normal sociology is not to say merely that it is an inevitable, although regrettable phenomenon due to the incorrigible wickedness of men; it is to affirm that it is a factor in public health, an integral part of all healthy societies."
Who is Emile Durkheim?
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In this theoretical perspective, deviance is seen as part of a complicated system where stability and social order is promoted when complex parts work together.

What is functionalism?

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Kamikazes, soldier jumping on grenade or charging hill, suicide bombers are examples of which kind of suicide?

What is altruistic suicide?

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In Pulp fiction, this character illustrates best Merton's conformity as a form of adaptation

Who is Jimmie?

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Behavior that violates standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society
What is deviance? (deviant behavior)
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“deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules or sanctions to an “offender.” The deviant is one to whom that label has been successfully applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label”
Who is Howard Becker?
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Circumstance, space and time are three dimensions of this phenomena.

What is the relativity of deviance?

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A number of financial professionals from the United States to London to Hong Kong have committed suicide in the past couple of years. They had a high-pressure job that had been under even more scrutiny since the financial crisis. Them taking their lives could be an example of what kind of suicide?

What is fatalistic suicide?

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phrases such as "the nationwide epidemic of obesity;” the notion that millions of people “abuse” or are “addicted” to food; the listing of eating disorders in the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical; adapting the 12-Step addiction recovery program developed by Alcoholics Anonymous to Overeaters Anonymous

What are practices that change classification of food to similar to drugs?

What are examples of medical language changing the boundaries between food and drugs?

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According to Durkheim, two social factors are relevant for explaining suicide.
What are social integration and social regulation?
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"Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter. . ."

Who is Mary Douglas?

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This perspective sees deviance as resting on the assumption that all human behavior can be considered either inherently good or inherently bad

What is absolutism?

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Generally isolated teenagers, not popular at all, harassed or teased by others taking their lives are examples of which kind of suicide?
What is egoistic suicide?
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 Being “noble,masculine and crime-fighters"  


What is being successful (cultural goals) in the subcultural arena of police?


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Durkheim refers to the general structure of shared understanding, norms, and beliefs as
What is collective consciousness?
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This sociologist claimed that broader patterns of deviance and crime are rooted in social structure, because of a "strain" people face between societal goals and means of obtaining these goals
Who is Robert K Merton?
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This analytical approach explores deviance as an outcome of processes of signification and meaning-making in social groups, exploring the norms expectations, goals and boundary making implicated in the creation deviance.

What is the cultural approach to studying deviance?

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Someone committing suicide after bankruptcy or after winning a lottery and being exposed to rapid change and loss of a sense of control could be an example of which kind of suicide?
What is anomic suicide?
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A combination of factors - including personal lives, economic situations, lack of legitimate hang-out space, drugs, alienation from school and parents, parental high expectations, and quick negative judgments - created a situation in which teens wanted out and they thought suicide was the only answer

What is the main argument in Teenage Wasteland?