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| Question | Answer |
| Relativist Perspective | falling within social constructionism |
| Social Power Perspective | builds on the relativist perspective by asserting the |
| Folkaways | simple everyday norms based on custom, tradition, or etiquette |
| Mores | norms based on broad societal morals whose infraction would generate more serious social condemnation |
| Laws | strongest norm, supported by codified social sanctions |
| ABC's of Deviance | Attitudes, Behaviors, Conditions |
| Three categories of S' | sin, sick, and selected |
| DSM IV | diagnostic and statistical manual mental disorders. |
| Self-Fulfilling Prophesy | by which norm violators reproduce their deviance, living up to the negative images society holds of them. |
| Communities | Deviant behavior in social units |
| Boundaries | never a fixed property of any community. Always shifting as the people of the group find new ways to define the outer limits of their universe. |
| Groups | Tight Clusters |
| Standards | a level of quality or attainment |
| Jeffrey Dahmer Phenomenon | metaphorically, negative deviance |
| Geek Phenomenon | rate busting is neg. appraised overconfirmity. At the core, geek phenomenon is epitomizes |
| John Gotti phenomenon (Deviance Admiration) | deviance admiration, which focuses on under-conformity or nonconformity that is favorably assessed. |
| Mother Theresa phenomenon | positive deviance, describes over conformity that is responded to in a confirmatory fashion. |
| Negative Deviance | under conformity or nonconformity that is negatively evaluated. |
| Rate Busting | refers to the negative reaction not to under conform but to over conform and constitutes the “geek phenomenon.” Adhering to the idealized level of the norm induces unfavorable evaluations. |
| Holier than thou | an individual that falls into a religious dominant with traditions that are estrange members of their own group |
| Super patriots | – who are too enthusiastic in their display of symbolic representations of nation and who will support government under any circumstance often alienate others. |
| White Lies | socially accepted lies for the purpose of protecting the emotional feelings of another. |
| Positive Deviance/ Altruism | altruism is positive deviance in the form of loyalty. Also refers to the mother Theresa phenomenon |
| Properness | the positive deviance type of conventionality |
| Hyperresponsibility | the positive deviance form of the norm of responsibilit |
| Cooperation | (doing it for the team) represents the positive deviance profile of participation. |
| Forthrightness | exemplifies positive deviance for the norm of honesty |
| Interactionist perspective | defines deviance as the infraction of some agreed upon rule. Then breaks the rules, and to search for the factors in their personalities and life situations that might account for the infractions |
| cultural relativism | understanding deviance |
| moral order | a common world view that binds people to their families, to their communities, and to the larger economic and political institutions. |
| moral panics | flourish in such a climate of anomie |
| social reality of crime | a theory that helps us begin to examine the legal order critically. |
| The official definition of crime | crime as a legal definition of human conduct |
| Formulating definitions of crime | definitions of crime are composed of behaviors that conflict with the interests of the dominant class |
| Applying definitions of crime | definitions of crime are 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 | behavior patterns are structured in relation to definitions of crime, and within this context people engage in actions that have relative probabilities of being defined as criminal. |
| Constructing an ideology of crime | an ideology of crime is constructed and diffused by the dominant class to secure its hegemony. |
| Constructing the social reality of crime | the social reality of crime is constructed by the formulation and application of definitions of crime, the development of behaviors patterns in relation to these definitions, and the construction of an ideology of crime |
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