Ch 7 - Deviance and Social Control

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Psychologists
________ believe that deviating individuals have deviating personalities and that subconscious motives drive people to deviance.
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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.
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Emile Durkheim
________ stated that deviance, including crime, is functional for society, as it contributes to social order:
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Cultural Goals
________: objectives held out as legitimate or desirable for the members of a society to achieve.
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Functionalists
________ argue that crime is a natural part of society.
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Biosocial theorists
________ stress that genes alone are not cause for deviant behaviour.
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Biological Explanations
________: assumed that genetic predispositions lead people to such behaviours as juvenile delinquency and crime.
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Strain
________: refers to the frustrations they feel.
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Social control
________: which is a formal and informal means of enforcing norms.
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Deviance
________ is not linked with any particular personality.
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Deviance-non
any act to which people respond negatively.
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Deviance
________ is subjective, as different groups have a different understanding of what is ________.
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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
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Deviance non
any act to which people respond negatively
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Social order
a groups customary social arrangements
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Social control
which is a formal and informal means of enforcing norms
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Biological Explanations
assumed that genetic predispositions lead people to such behaviours as juvenile delinquency and crime
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Differential Association
from the different groups we associate with, we learn to deviate from or conform to societys norm
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Cultural Goals
objectives held out as legitimate or desirable for the members of a society to achieve
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Strain Theory
a theory developed by Robert Merton to explain how people react when their access to success is blocked
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Strain
refers to the frustrations they feel