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Sociology 1010 Chapter 7
Dr. Wei-Arthus
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
03/20/2015

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Anomie
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is a social condition in which norms and values are conflicting weak or absent.
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Capital Class
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Refers to the people who own the capital and do not have to sell their labor.
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Conformity
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May involve going along with peers and/or following societal norms.
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Containment Theory
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is based on control theory and focuses on a strong self-image as a means of defending against negative peer pressure.
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Control Theory
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is the idea that there are two control systems, inner and outer, that work against our tendencies to deviate
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Corporate Crimes
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are the illegal actions of people acting on behalf of the corporation.
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Criminal Justice System
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included the police, courts, and prisons that deal with criminal laws and their enforcement.
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Criminology
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is the scientific study of the causes of criminal behavior.
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Cultural Goals
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are the legitimate objectives of numbers of society.
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Deviance
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is a violation of rules or norms
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Differential Association
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is a theory of deviance that believes people will deviate or conform depending on their associations.
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Hate Crime
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refers to criminal acts against a person or a persons property by an offender who is motivated by racial or other biases.
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Illegitimate opportunity structures
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are relative oppurtunity structures outside the laws and social norms and frame a persons life.
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Institutional means
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include approved ways of reaching cultural goals
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Juvenile Delinquency
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is participation in illegal activity by minors who fall under the statutory age limit.
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Labeling Theory
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is the idea that the labels people are given affect their own and others perceptions of them, and therefore, channel behavior either into or away from conformity.
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Marginal Working Class
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includes the most desperate members of society who have few skills and little job security. They are often unemployed.
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Medicalization of Deviance
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means to relate deviance to an underlying illness that needs to be treated by physicians.
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Occasional Crime
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occurs in a persons routine or daily life, if and when opportunity knocks, as opposed to a professional crime that is planned.
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Organized Crime
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is a highly disciplined business organization whose profits come from illegal activity.
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Primary Deviance
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is the first occurrence of a violation of a norm, which the committing actor does not view as deviant. Thus, it would have little to no effect on a persons self-concept.
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Professional Crime
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is when someone uses special skills, experience, methods or instruments to commit a crime while considering the activity to be that person's basic occupation or as a main or additional source of income. The most common type is fraud, and all professional crime is for personal gain.
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Political Crime
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refers to crime or acts committed to harm the state, the state's government or the political system in general.
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Punishment
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is an authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person in response to behavior considered bad.
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Recidivism Rates
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represent the number of people rearrested for committing the same types of crimes.
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Sanctions
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refer to rewards for normal behaviors and penalties for abnormal behaviors.
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Secondary Deviance
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is a response to a primary deviance by which a person repeatedly violates a norm and begins to take on a deviant identity.
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Social Control
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involves techniques and strategies for maintaining order and preventing deviant behavior in a society.
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Social Order
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is the collective acknowledgement of cultural norms and shared expectations and includes social arrangements upon which members depend.
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Stigmas
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discredit a persons claim to a normal identity.
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Strain Theory
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was developed by Robert Merton to describe the strain felt by some members of society when they don not have access to the institutional means to achieve cultural goals.
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Street Crimes
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are crimes that occur in public places
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Techniques of Neutralization
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are ways of thinking of rationalizing that help people deflect society's norms.
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Tertiary deviance
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is normalizing behavior considered deviant by mainstream society, or relabeling behavior as non-deviant.
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White Collar Crimes
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are illegal acts committed by affluent individuals in the course of business activities.
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