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Chapter 6 Deviance and Social Control

Introduction to Sociology- Henslin Text
Instructor: T. Esguerra
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_______ _______ is the view that the labels people are given affect their own and others' perceptions of them, thus channeling their behavior into either deviance or conformity.
________ ceremony is a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone's self by stripping away that individual's self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place.
______ _______ is the killing of several victims in three or more separate events.
____--_______ crime is Edwin Sutherland's term for crimes committed by people of respectable and high social status in the course of their occupations.
_________ of deviance is when deviance is made a medical matter, a symptom of some underlying illness that needs to be treated by physicians.
________ _________ is Edwin Sutherland's term to indicate that people who associate with some groups learn an "excess of definitions" of deviance, increasing the likelihood that they will become deviant.
A _______ ________ is an expression of approval for following a norm, ranging from a smile or a good grade in a class to a material reward such as a prize.
_________ ________ is the idea that two control systems - inner controls and outer controls- work against our tendencies to deviate.
_______ crime are crimes committed by executives in order to benefit their corporation.
Police ________ is the practice of the police, in the normal course of their duties, to either arrest or ticket someone for an offense or to overlook the matter.
The violation of norms written into law.
______ goals are the objectives held out as legitimate or desirable for the members of a society to achieve.
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_______ crimes include mugging, rape and burglary.
Techniques of ___________ are ways of thinking or rationalizing that help people deflect or neutralize society's norms.
________ disorders is the view that a personality disturbance of some sort causes an individual to violate social norms.
_______ _______ is a group's usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives.
__________ _________ is an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction such as a frown to a formal reaction such as a fine or a prison sentence.
_______ _______ is a group's formal and informal means of enforcing its norms.
The _____ _______ system is the system of police, courts, and prisons set up to deal with people who are accused of having committed a crime.
The violation of norms (or rules or expectations)
A _________ predisposition is inborn tendencies such as a tendency to commit deviant acts.
"Blemishes" that discredit a person's claim to a "normal" identity.
______ theory is Robert Merton's term for the strain engendered when a society socializes large numbers of people to desire a cultural goal (such as success) by withholds from some the approved means of reaching that goal.