Ch. 5
The sum total for behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values characteristic of an individual is called
personality
What does Tabula Rasa translate to in English?
Clean slate or blank slate
Wild or untamed children are known as
Ex. Genie
Feral Children
Behavior that violates significant social norms is known as
Deviance
Name one social function of deviance
1. Clarify norms
2. Unify groups
3. Relieves tension
4. promotes social change
5. jobs
Stage of life between childhood and adulthood
Adolescence
When we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others
Looking-glass self
What agent of socialization is particular influential during pre-teen/teenage yrs?
Peer groups
A prison suit that inmates have to wear is an example of a what?
Stigma
murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault are considered to be which of the five types of crime?
Violent Crime
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society
socialization
Romantic engagement outside of marriage used for entertainment, companionship, or socialization
Dating
Socialization theory where kids take on role of others through imitation, play, and games
* Process enables people to anticipate expectations of others
Role-taking by George Herbert-Mead
In order to be labeled deviant these two things must happen
1. Have to be caught
2. Have to be stigmatized
Types of crime including prostitution, illegal gambling, illegal drug use, and vagrancy fall under what crime category?
Victimless crime
Transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children
heredity
The physical maturing that makes an individual capable of sexual reproduction is
Adolescence
Women hold at least half of all of these jobs in America?
Professional jobs
Social scientists who study criminal behavior
criminologists
offenses committed by individuals of high social status in their professional lives
White-collar crime
Capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a body of knowledge
aptitude
Learning the rights, obligations, and expectations of a role in preparation for assuming that role in the future is called
Anticipatory Socialization
What is the fastest growing minority group in the US labor force?
Hispanics
A crime syndicate is an example of which one of the 5 general types of crime?
Organized Crime
stealing someone else’s property or intentionally damaging it
Property Crimes or Crimes against Property