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| ON THE SOCIETY OF DEVIANCE | Boundary maintaining (page 18) = how members of a community retain a sense of belonging to a group by outlining, maintaining and following a set of norms normal for that group, yet may seem inappropriate and even immoral if someone strays from it. Deviant Behavior (page 20) = a sort of ‘social life’ for its members which gives its members their individual identity and a sense of ownership. Also supplies the frame work for deviant behavior. |
| ON THE SOCIETY OF DEVIANCE continued | How prisons and hospitals can perpetuate deviance (page 20) = they segregate people in small tight groups, of whose members rely on one another for survival and imitate deviant behaviors of those around them in order to avoid being victims. Reasons why/how prisons can promote deviance (page 21) = people don’t give deviants benefit of the doubt that they can change, society is not too keen on wasting tax dollars on rehabilitating these persons, their verdicts are irrevocable and stigmatizes them for life, no tools for deviants to resume a normal life, people are wary of deviants. |
| ON THE SOCIETY OF DEVIANCE continued | Some fears are well-founded (page 22) = experience shows that deviants return to the life of crime. Therefore deviance continues (page 22) = such a person buys into people’s image of him and starts to see himself as a career criminal who has no choice but to resume his deviant behavior, perhaps because it is expected of him, or that he does not know anything else, or perhaps even because he forms an identity in his criminal activities. Deviance is inevitable (page 23) = it results from group discrepancy and labor disunion. |
| INTEGRATED TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANCE TO MIDDLE CLASS NORMS | 1. Negative deviance – non or under conformity that is classified as negative – historically most popular (linked to Jeff Dahmer) 2. Deviance admiration - non or under conformity that is classified as positive (linked to John Gotti) 3. Rate busting – over or hyper conformity that is classified as negative 4. Positive deviance - over or hyper conformity that is classified as positive, overachievers (linked to Mother Teresa) |
| INTEGRATED TYPOLOGY OF DEVIANCE TO MIDDLE CLASS NORMS continued | Deviance further described in 4 different approaches (page 26) = absolutist, statistical, normative/objectivist and reactivist or subjectivist. |
| RELATIVISM: LABELING THEORY (page 40) | relies on the theory that deviance is socially generated by group judgments and ideas. For example, adultery and pre-marital pregnancies are technically wrong and immoral but the law doesn’t interfere because of how people react to it. (Page 42) Also depends on who is the victim of the deviant behavior? The rich and the famous? Celebrities? Middle class people? Which one of these groups you think gets more priority? (Page 41) |
| RELATIVISM: LABELING THEORY (page 40) continued | The aftermath of being categorized as a deviant also affects the person’s behavior. People of different colors are treated different by the law. You will naturally react according to what you are being labeled as. (Page 42) Major distinctions and pre-conceived notions based on skin color also defines who is categorized as a deviant. Commit one crime and it will basically follow you for the rest of your life. (Page 43) |
| NATURAL LAW AND THE SOCIETY OF DEVIANCE (Page 45) | links social stability to moral order and in turn moral order determines what establishes deviance. Deviance is a part of society and determines its norms. |
| SOCIAL POWER: CONFLICT THEORY OF CRIME (Page 51) | criminal behavior is not intrinsic, rather it is how others judge a person’s actions. Definitions of crime are instituted by people in power, although they themselves do not enforce these rules, that job is delegated to other people (cops) People who are branded as deviant, buy into that label and start acting accordingly. |
| FOLKWAYS DEVIANCE | General consesus about norms and rules and manners. Violater is viewed as the odd one out or weird or ill-mannered. |
| MORES DEVIANCE | What society deems as right or wrong. Interracial marriage, tattoos etc. Offender maybe ortraziced as a bad perosn. |
| ARE CRIME AND DEVIANCE SIMILAR? | Not really. Crime is breaking the law. Deviance is opposing behavior against what the majority of people 'consider' wrong. They are different, but with some overlapping characteristics. |
| SIN, SICK AND SELECTION | All three are very different, with the similarity that they can fall under the devint category. |
| ANOMIE | Lack of moral or ethical values in a person or a group. |
| CRIME | Definitions of crime depends on the views of the dominant class. (Rich & famous? Celebrities?) |
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