Chapter 1 Theory
Which sociological theory explains the rise of crime and deviance as the breakdown of norms and values during times of social upheaval.
What is Structural Functionalism?
These are socially constructed problems based on responses (overreactions) of the media and moral entrepreneurs.
What is a moral panic?
Some school districts institute uniform policies in order to eliminate clothing competitiveness among students and the use of clothing as social-class markers. Goffman has a term for this.
What is (a) status degradation (ceremony)?
The phrase, “deviants are made not born” reflects the kind of thinking of which theoretical perspective in sociology.
What is symbolic interactionism?
According to Irving Goffman, which kind of institution limits patients’ personal decision making, makes patients feel cut off and alone, and robs residents of their dignity through regimented routines.
What are total institutions?
According to some functionalists, what are people feeling when they are compelled to commit crime because of too few legitimate means to acquire the trappings of material success.
What is Strain/Strain Theory (Robert Merton)?
The term feminists apply to the different experiences women have in their socialization, as victims of violence, at the hands of the criminal justice system, or as participants in deviant subcultures.
What is gendering?
Inexpensive “knock-off” products worn to imitate fashions of the wealthy and other public figures enhance the status of the wearers and represent this concept or form of capital.
What is social and/or cultural capital?
Today’s soldiers returning from war often suffer post-traumatic stress related illnesses that harken back to an earlier mental health diagnostic term.
What is shell shock (possibly catch-22, gulf war syndrome)?
A symbolic interactionist is interested in the study of mental illness, what kinds of focus would his or her work take to understand the meaning of one person's death by self-harm behaviours.
What are suicide notes (or diaries, psychological autopsies)?
Attachment to family, to school, to positive peer support, all contribute to less delinquency and deviance among adolescents according to which theoretical perspective.
What is Social Bond Theory?
A highly skeptical criminologist concludes that ultimately there is no truth and there is no normal, and that behind any vested interest or set of norms and standards there lies a power structure. These views reflect which theoretical approach in sociology.
What is postmodernism?
Elite runway models are the living examples of today’s "ideal" standard of beauty: young, thin, symmetrical facial features. But who are these models, sociologically speaking.
What are deviant images of beauty?
A prominent Canadian figure is highlighted in your textbook as having spoken out about his/her experience with mental illness in an effort to reduce stigmatization of mental conditions.
Who is Howie Mandel?
The form of macro-sociological analysis that focuses on stability, maintenance, order, equilibrium, conformity.
What is structural functionalism?
What parenting style best contributes to attachment and future pro-social behaviours by young people?
What is Authoritative Parenting?
Research has shown shifts in ideal female body image from the 1950s to the present.
What is ideal images have become more slender and slighter as real body sizes have increased?
The gendered nature of eating disorders.
What are more women than men have eating disorders?
The kind of mental health issue afflicting an individual who hears music sent telepathically by angels because she was specially chosen by God for this gift.
What is schizophrenia?
In representing one of sociology’s main perspectives, Tepperman, writes that the American Psychological Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is “. . . not a fact book.” To which perspective is this quote relevant
What is postmodernism?
The concept of self-control or a lack of self-control leaving individuals predisposed to committing crime is a principle related to what theory.
What is a General Theory of Crime?
An already-attractive young woman who undergoes in a series of procedures to whiten her teeth and straighten her nose as one of Merton’s deviance typology categories.
What is a conformist?
The term to describe a 14-year-old anorexic female who employs various strategies to fool her parents into believing she is healthy and eating. One strategy is to tell her parents she is going to a friend’s house for supper, but then she goes for a workout.
What is passing and covering? (p. 57)
When it comes to suicidal behaviours, consider following phrase: “Although women are trying more (self-injury behaviours), men are dying more (suicidal deaths)”. Explain
What is men use more lethal means of self injury like guns, or hanging?
Something low-income mentally ill patients often do with respect to their medication/drug-taking.
What is stop taking their medication?