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Sociology Vocabulary Ch. 7&8
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- 1the recognized violation of cultural normsdeviance
- 2the violation of a society's formally enacted criminal lawcrime
- 3attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behaviorsocial control
- 4the organizations -police, courts, and prison officials- that respond to alleged violations of the lawcriminal justice system
- 5the idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actionslabeling theory
- 6a powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identitystigma
- 7the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical conditionmedicalization of deviance
- 8crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupationswhite-collar crime
- 9the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalfcorporate crime
- 10a business supplying illegal goods or servicesorganized crime
- 11a criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other biashate crime
- 12a legal negotiation in which a prosecutor reduces a charge in exchange for a defendant's guilty pleaplea bargaining
- 13an act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crimeretribution
- 14the attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishmentdeterrence
- 15a program for reforming the offender to prevent later offensesrehabilitation
- 16rendering an offender incapable of further offenses temporarily through imprisonment or permanently by executionsocietal protection
- 17later offenses by people previously convicted of crimescriminal recidivism
- 18correctional programs operating within society at large rather than behind prison wallscommunity-based corrections
- 19crimes that direct violence or the threat of violence against others; also known as violent crimescrimes against the person
- 20crimes that involve theft of money or property belonging to others; also known as property crimescrimes against property
- 21violations of law in which there are no obvious victimsvictimless crimes
- 22a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchysocial stratification
- 23a change in position within the social hierarchysocial mobility
- 24social stratification based on ascription, or birthcaste system
- 25social stratification based on both birth and individual achievementclass system
- 26social stratification based on personal meritmeritocracy
- 27the degree of uniformity in a person's social standing across various dimensions of social inequalitystatus consistency
- 28a shift in the social position of large numbers of people due more to changes in society itself than to individual effortsstructural social mobility
- 29cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequalityideology
- 30the functional analysis claiming that social stratification has beneficial consequences for the operation of societyDavis-Moore thesis
- 31people who own and operate factories and other businesses in pursuit of profitscapitalists
- 32people who sell their labor for wagesproletarians
- 33the experience of isolation and misery resulting from powerlessnessalienation
- 34lower-prestige jobs that involve mostly mental activityblue-collar occupations
- 35higher-prestige jobs that involve mostly mental laborwhite-collar occupations
- 36a composite ranking based on various dimensions of social inequalitysocioeconomic status
- 37buying and using products because of the "statement" they make about social positionconspicuous consumption
- 38earnings from work or investmentsincome
- 39the total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debtswealth
- 40a change in social position occurring during a person's lifetimeintragenerational social mobility
- 41upward or downward social mobility of children in relation to their parentsintergenerational social mobility
- 42the lack of resources of some people in relation to those who have morerelative poverty
- 43a lack of resources that is life-threateningabsolute poverty
- 44the trend of women making up an increasing proportion of the poorfeminization of poverty
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- Fichas sobre Sociology Vocabulary Ch. 7&8, creado por christen0526 el 15/10/2013.
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