Sociology Chapter 7 - Deviance

crime is not from limited legitimate opportunity but also from illegitimate opportunity

Social scientist who identified degradation ceremony

Argued that too much deviance results from particular social arrangements

who states that social control depends on people anticipating consequences of their behavior

argues that deviant labels are applied to people who interfere with the operation of capitalism

The transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition

a reinterpretation of the person’s past in light of some present deviance

What is NOT a reason for punishing wrongdoers?

What is NOT a part of Merton's deviance typology?

norm violations provoke reactions from others but have little effect on a person’s self concept

a business supplying illegal goods or services

the violation of a society’s formally enacted law

street crime is more prevalent among people who are

linked delinquency to weak conscience

There is widespread belief that ____ & ____ are good, and this masks their political character

Who's work was based on body types and behavior?

deviance & conformity result not from what people do as from how others respond to actions

What part of Merton's typology rejects both institutionalized means and cultural goals

What is NOT one of the four types of social control identified by Hirschi?

who came up with differential association theory

Who is more likely to be arrested for property and violent crimes?

What part of Merton's typology accepts institutionalized means and rejects cultural goals

Social scientist who identified primary and secondary deviance

when an entire community stigmatizes a person in a public way

What is NOT one of the four essential functions of Durkheim's study of deviance?

the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf

recognized violation of cultural norms

deviant subcultures are characterized by trouble, toughness, smartness, excitement, fate

Who's work was based on the concept of "the primitive man?"

claimed that people apply the label of mental illness to conditions that are simply differences

a formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violations of the law

crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations

criminal act against a person or a person’s property by an offender motivated by bias

people we tend to define as deviants are typically those who are harmful as well as powerless

Our society’s formal response to crime is our

criminality is most common to lower-class youths:they have least opportunity to achieve success

This group makes up 13% of the population and accounts for 30% of property crime arrests.

attempts by society to regulate people’s thoughts and behavior

What part of Merton's typology replaces both institutionalized means and cultural goals

All norms, especially the laws of any society generally reflect the interests of

What part of Merton's typology rejects institutionalized means and accepts cultural goals

in poor neighborhoods most people manage to conform to conventional values

concluded that police quickly size up situations in terms of 6 factors

What is NOT an example of positively labeling the support of capitalism?

conformity depends on amount of contact with others who encourage/reject conventional behavior

A powerful negative label that greatly changes a person’s self concept and social identity

The majority of inner-city residents are

What part of Merton's deviance typology accepts both institutionalized means and cultural goals

Types of crime include

using a deviant identity to predict the person’s future behavior

What is NOT one of the consequences of defining deviance as a moral or medical issue?

changes their self concept because of the observation from an audience during primary deviance

What is the reason for the disproportionate number of arrests among African Americans?