Module 1 Study Guide

Module 1 Study Guide

1. Violations of Social Norms

   • Folkways
     • Every day norms based on custom, tradition or etiquette
   • Mores
     • Norms based on broad societal morals
   • Laws
     • Strongest norms as they are suppored by codified social sanctions

2. CHAPTER 2 An Integrated Typology of Deviance Applied to Ten Middle-Class Norms

   • Normative Expectations
     • Expected Attitudes, Behaviors or Beliefs
   • U.S. Middle Class Deviance
     • Norm
     • Negative Deviance
       • Underconformity or nonconformity that is negatively evaluated
     • Deviance Admiration
       • Underconformity that is positively evaluated
     • Rate Busting
       • Negative reaction not to underconformity but to overconformity
     • Positive Deviance
       • Overconformity to the norms that is positively evaluated
   • CHAPTER 3 Relativism: Labeling Theory
     • The essence of deviance is not contained within individuals behaviors but in the response others have to these.
     • Rule breaking behavior vs. Deviant Behavior
     • Deviance is not a quality that lies in behavior itself, but in the interaction between the person who commits and act and those who respond to it
       • CHAPTER 4 The Morality of Deviance
         • Cultural Relativism
           • Adapt to change / Progress
         • Moral Order
           • Social stability
         • Moral Boundaries
           • Framework for orderly sense of cultural identity and social order
         • Moral Consensus
           • Construct hard principles - Be able to reach a conclusion on serious moral issues
         • CHAPTER 5 Social Power: Conflict Theory of Crime
           • Official Definition of Crime
             • Behavior that is conferred on some people by those in power
           • Formulating Definitions of Crime
             • Those who are able to have their interests represented in public policy regulate the formulation of definitions of crime
           • Applying Definitions of Crime
             • Applied by the class that has the power to shape the enforcement and administration of criminal law
           • How Behavior Patterns Develop in Relation to Definitions of Crime
           • Constructing an Ideology of Crime
           • Constructing the Social Reality of Crime
             • Constructed by the formulation and application of definitions of crime, the developement of behavior patterns and the construction of an ideology of crime

3. CHAPTER 1 Defining Deviance

   • Crime vs. Deviance
     • ABC's of Deviance
       • Attitudes
       • Behaviors
       • Conditions
       • Categories of S's
         • Sin
         • Sick
         • Selected
   • On the Sociology of Deviance
     • Communities
       • Boundries
         • Culture and Role In Society