Week 5 Flashcards
1
Q
What is deviance?
A
involves breaking a norm and evoking a negative reaction
2
Q
What is a crime?
A
the deviance that breaks a law
3
Q
What is labelling?
A
results not from the actions of the deviant, but also from the responses of others (being labelled as deviant will force the person to become deviant)
4
Q
what is primary deviance?
A
Committing a deviant act but are not labelled as deviant by authorities
5
Q
What is secondary deviance?
A
Some victims of such acts may find themselves labelled as deviant because they are stigmatized
6
Q
What is steven spitzer’s theory?
A
-capitalist societies are based on private ownership of propety.
- their functioning depends on the availability of labour and authority
