Defining Deviance

Assessed by 3 Categories of S's
1. Sick
2. Sin
3. Selected
ABC's of Deviance
1. Attitudes
2. Behaviors
3. Conditions
4. Ex: Socioeconomic Status & Belief Systems
3 Types of Norms
1. Mores
2. Laws
3. Folkways
4. Norm Violations assoc w/crime, sin, & poor taste
5. US Middle Class Norms
  1. Prudence
  2. Privacy
  3. Loyalty
  4. Honesty
  5. Courtesy
  6. Responsibility
  7. Moderation
Institutions
1. Breed/Enhance Deviance
2. Promote Deviance for social control & economics
3. Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
4 Definitions of Deviance
1. Statistical
2. Reactivist/Subjectivist
3. Normative/Objectivist
4. Absolutist
Deviance Typology
1. Rate Busting
2. Deviance Admiration
3. Positive Deviance
4. Negative Deviance
Relativism: Labeling Theory
1. Deviant is labeled
2. Deviant behavior is behavior people label with
3. Master/Auxiliary vs Subordinate Status
Affirms moral order
1. Defining Deviancy Down vs Up
Cultural Relativism
1. Experts vs Common Sense
2. Medicalization of Deviance
Social vs Sacred Order
1. Replace concept of sin w/sickness
2. 9/11 Revelation
Social Power: Conflict Theory
1. Social Reality of Crime Theory
  1. 1. Official Definition of Crime
  2. 2. Formulating Definitions of Crime
  3. 3. Applying Definitions of Crime
  4. 4. Behavior Patterns Develop vs Definitions of Crime
  5. 5.Constructing an Ideology of Crime
  6. 6. Constructing the Social Reality of Crime

Resource summary

	Created by emoghtader over 8 years ago