DEVIANCE

Hirschi's social control theory proposes that:

• Deviance occurs when people with power label those with less power as deviant.

• Deviance affirms norms, values and morals; unifies people; promotes social change.

• Deviance has a role to play in the functioning and stability of society.

• Deviance occurs as peoples bond to society are weak or broken.

The roles of deviance according to Durkheim's functionalist theory are:

• Involvement, attachment, beliefs, commitments.

• Affirming norms, values and morals; unifying people; promoting social change.

• To allow society to function.

• Deviance occurs as peoples bond to society are weak or broken.

The basic elements of social bonds are attachment, commitment, ________________,   and belief.  

• Growth
• Involvement
• Deviance
• Sacrifice

The enforcing of norms through either internal or external means is called

• internalization
• anomie
• sanction
• social control

Theory focuses on how individuals come to be labeled as a deviant

• Becker's Interactionist Theory

• Hirchi's Social Control Theory

• Durkheim's Functionalist theory

• Differential Association Theory

Which of the following is true about deviance?

• Deviance can only affect society in negative ways.
• Some societies have eliminated deviance altogether.
• It is easy to identify deviant behavior.
• Ideas of deviance can change from one social context to another.

Students in George’s sixth-grade class avoid him because they know his father is in prison for auto theft. This is an example of

• deviance.

• rebellion.

• labeling with a stigma.

• attachment.

What is deviance?

• Change in a society created through social movements as well as through changes in the environment

• The recognized violation of social norms

• The idea that conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions

• Interpreting someone's past in light of present deviance

It is so important to Chris to appear successful to others that he begins stealing goods from the warehouse where he works and reselling them to obtain money. What is this an example of?

• ritualism

• conformity

• innovation

• retreatism

Which sociological perspective asserts that the richest, most powerful members of society decide who is and who is not considered deviant?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Structuralism