Sociology 8
no
Is capital punishment a deterrent
Symbolic interactionist
Sutherland- people learn deviance form the people with whom they associate, learn in environment
absolutism
approach to defining deviance that rests on the assumption that all human behavior can be considered either inherently good or inherently bad
relativism
approach to defining deviance that rests on the assumption that deviance is socially created by collective human judgements and ideas
social control
attempts to regulate people's thought and behavior
deviance
behavior, ideas, or attributes of an individual or group that some people in society find offensive, socially disproved, violation of norm
UCR
crime report from PD-FBI of # of crimes reported
medicalization
definition of behavior as a medical problem, mandating the medical profession to provide some kind of treatment for it
elements of deviance
expectation, violation, reaction
merton
functionalist theory of deviance, likelihood increase when people experience contradiction between culturally defined goals and economic success/access to legitimate ways to achieve goals- people adopt illegitimate means (strain theory)
self fulfilling prophecy
high rates of recidivism
no
is it deviance if you dont get caught
Gender of social categories
males commit more crimes, levels of aggression, defend themselves
Deterring Deviance
mechanism society has in place to constrain peoples behavior-stigmatized shame
self reports
most accurate measuring crime- no age restriction
criminalization
official definition of an act of deviance as a crime
social class
poor individuals have a higher arrest rates, part of intersectionality
international and global comparisons
rates of murder, assault and crime
NCVS
report when victimized, trust researcher
Race of social categories
stop and frisk, major cities, social indicator- overrepresented- unproportional to population
deterrence theory
theory of deviance positing that people will be prevented from engaging in a deviant act if they judge the costs of such an act to outweigh its benefits-people rational decision makers
Functionalist
theory of likelihood of deviance increases when people experience contradiction between culturally defined goals and econ success- illegitimate means (strain theory)
labeling theory
theory stating that deviance is the consequence of the application of rules and sanctions to an offender a deviant is an individual to whom the identity "deviant" has been successfully applied- WHY acts considered deviant- REACTIONS- sticky