Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control Flashcards
1
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Structural Strain Theory
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- Robert Merton
- people resort to crime/deviant behavior when they are frustrated in finding financial needs
- based on the American Dream
- based on the Anomie Theory
2
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Anomie Theory
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- the inability to achieve financial success
- attempts to explain the motive for the criminal/deviant behavior
- argues that people are raised to want material success
3
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Conformity/Conformist
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-accepts cultural values of success
4
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Innovation/ Innovator
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accept all the money of success, but rely on illegitimate means for achieving the american dream
5
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Ritualism/ Ritualist
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rejects the goal of success, but still competes their daily task
6
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Retreatism/Retreatist
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rejects the goal or success and the means for achieving the American dream
7
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Rebellion/Rebels
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rejects the dominant goals and values of society and the means to achieve them.
8
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Control Theory
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argues that deviance is caused by the absence of social control
