How Society is Organized

__________ means following the acceptable patterns of human behavior.

A behavior perceived as violating some widely-known and shared moral value or norm of a society or group culture. As a product of society, it exists only in relation to cultural norms.

• conformity

• deviance

• punishment

• violation

He developed the structural strain theory that traces the origins of deviance to the tensions that are caused by the gap between cultural goals and the means people have available to achieve those goals.

It is the process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture.

• acculturation

• assimilation

• enculturation

• socialization

Which of the following is not a goal of socialization?

• Socialization teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience.

• Socialization teachers individuals how to prepare for and perform certain roles.

• Socialization cultivates shared sources of meaning and values.

• Socialization helps to build friendship and enemies

According to Cooley, the self is formed as a social product of the many encounters with the judgment of others.

Mead believed that the self is divided into two parts, the

• I

• Me

• You

• We

Mead proposed a four-stage process of the development of the self, his proposal is unique in that he believed that the self is not something inborn rather the self start to evolve at the moment of interaction.

• imitation

• play

• game

• generalized other

• enjoy

A type of functionalist theory that suggests that deviance occurs when a person’s or group’s attachment to social bonds is weakened.

What is the meaning of "all crime is deviance… but all deviance is not a crime.”