chapter 6 Flashcards
Social order
A groups usual and customary social arrangements on which members depend and which they base their lives
Deviance
The violation of rules or norms
Negative sanction
An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction to a formal one
Positive sanction
Reward or positive reaction for following norms ranging from a smile to a prize
Genetic predisposition
Inborn tendencies to commit deviant acts
Personality disorder
The view that a personality disturbance of some sort causes an individual to violate social norms
Degradation ceremony
An extreme form of shaming, the individual is stripped of his identity as a group member
Techniques of neutralization
Ways of thinking or rationalizing that help people deflect society’s rules
Strain theory
Morton’s theory based on cultural goals and the institutionalized means to achieve them
White collar crime
Crimes committed by people of respectable and high status in the course of their occupations
Recidivism rate
The percentage of released convicts who are rearrested
Capital punishment
Another term for the death penalty
Serial murder
The killing of three or more victims in separate events
Medicialization of deviance
To make deviance a medical matter; a symptom of some underlying illness that needs treated by physicians
