Ch 7 - Deviance and Social Control

Psychologists

Psychologists

________ believe that deviating individuals have deviating personalities and that subconscious motives drive people to deviance.

Deviance

________: refers to any violation of norms, rules, or expectations, whether the interaction is as minor as driving over the speed limit, as serious as murder.

Emile Durkheim

________ stated that deviance, including crime, is functional for society, as it contributes to social order:

Cultural Goals

________: objectives held out as legitimate or desirable for the members of a society to achieve.

Functionalists

________ argue that crime is a natural part of society.

Biosocial theorists

________ stress that genes alone are not cause for deviant behaviour.

Biological Explanations

________: assumed that genetic predispositions lead people to such behaviours as juvenile delinquency and crime.

Strain

________: refers to the frustrations they feel.

Social control

________: which is a formal and informal means of enforcing norms.

Deviance

________ is not linked with any particular personality.

Deviance-non

any act to which people respond negatively.

Deviance

________ is subjective, as different groups have a different understanding of what is ________.

Deviance

refers to any violation of norms, rules, or expectations, whether the interaction is as minor as driving over the speed limit, as serious as murder

Deviance non

any act to which people respond negatively

Social order

a groups customary social arrangements

Social control

which is a formal and informal means of enforcing norms

Biological Explanations

assumed that genetic predispositions lead people to such behaviours as juvenile delinquency and crime

Differential Association

from the different groups we associate with, we learn to deviate from or conform to societys norm

Cultural Goals

objectives held out as legitimate or desirable for the members of a society to achieve

Strain Theory

a theory developed by Robert Merton to explain how people react when their access to success is blocked

Strain

refers to the frustrations they feel