Society
These societies use simple technology for hunting animals and gathering vegetation.
What are hunting and gathering societies?
This is the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society.
What is Socialization?
These status assigned without the person's consent.
What are ascribed status?
This type of crime includes actions involving force or threat of force against others-- murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
What is violent crime?
The recognized violation of a cultural norm.
What is deviance?
These are societies based on technology that supports the domestication of large animals to provide food and other resources.
What are pastoral societies?
These are persons, groups, or institutions that teach us what we need to know in order to participate in society.
What are agents of socialization?
A married couple, their children, and other relatives—such as grandparents, aunts, or uncles—living together in the same household.
What is an extended family?
Actions of burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft, and arson would be considered this type of crime.
What is property crime?
This theory states that acts are deviant or criminal because they have been labeled as such.
What is Labeling Theory?
This type of society based on technology that mechanizes production.
What is industrial society?
This term refers to expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of men and women.
What are gender roles?
Occupation, educational level, and profession are examples of this type of status.
What is achieved status?
Crime that involves burglary, larceny, motor theft, and arson.
What is property crime?
This theory by Robert Merton stresses that deviance occurs when access to approved means of reaching culturally approved goals is blocked.
What is Strain Theory?
These societies use the technology of large-scale farming, including animal-drawn or energy-powered plows and equipment to produce their food supply.
A phrase that relates to how much of a person's characteristics come are heredity vs social environment.
What is Nature vs Nurture?
A group of people linked by common interests, equal social position, and (usually) similar age.
What are peer groups?
This is a type of crime that involves a willing exchange of illegal goods or services among adults.
What is victimless crime?
Criminal acts that violate social norms as dictated by the law.
What is Formal Deviance?
According to Marx, this is a society’s economic system, which forms the basis for its material culture.
What is base?
Gender socialization starts at this age.
What is birth?
This occurs when fulfilling the role expectations of one status makes it difficult to fulfill the role expectations of another status.
What is role conflict?
Crimes committed behind closed door by individuals with high social status in the course of their professional life.
What are white-collar crimes?
The two main tools for measuring crime rates on the nations level.
What are the Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Victimization Report