Section 3: Deviant Events and Social Control

Question 1

Broken Windows Theory

Answer 1

A theoretical explanation of the norm setting and signaling effect of urban disorder.

Question 2

Social Control

Answer 2

A groups’s formal and informal means of dealing with behaviors, beliefs, or conditions that violate social norms.

Question 3

Negative Santions

Answer 3

Punishments meant to discourage deviant conduct.

Question 4

Positive Sanctions

Answer 4

Rewards meant to encourage conducts that conform to norms.

Question 5

Informal Sanctions

Answer 5

Unofficial expressions or actions of approval or disapproval of a group or individual in response to norms.

Question 6

Formal Sanctions

Answer 6

Official group expressions or actions of approval or disapproval meant to convey collective group sentiments.

Question 7

Agents of Social Control

Answer 7

Those that administer controlling sanctions and attempt to manipulate the behaviors of others by imposing formal sanctions.