Deviance-SOC1000

Socially unacceptable routes to success

• Ritualism

• Innovation

• Retreatism

Includes murder, robbery, assault, arson, or theft

• public order crimes

• white collar crimes

• street crimes

Behavior that does not conform to basic cultural norms and expectations.

• Conformity

• Deviance

• Norms

·       The most obvious form of deviance is crime, deviant behavior that violates a law.

• True

• False

Authority allows some people to escape being branded or punished as deviant

• True

• False

Argues that deviance is the result of how others interpret a behavior and that individuals who are labeled deviant often internalize this judgment as part of their self-identity.

• Social control theory

• Labelling Theory

• Strain Theory

Refers to the shame attached to a behavior or status that is considered socially unacceptable or discrediting

• Shame

• Conformity

• Stigma

The line dividing deviant from nondeviant behavior is often subtle and hard to define

• True

• False

Is the designation of a deviant behavior as an illness that can be treated by medical professionals.

• medicalization of deviance

• Social control

• Rehabilitation

A theory that suggests that deviance is learned through interaction with other people involved in deviant behavior.

• Social Strain Theory

• Labelling Theory

• Differential association theory