chapter two

Question 1

The reactions toward deviant behavior. For example going outside shirtless.

Answer 1

Social control

Question 2

The term event refers not only to a behavior, but also to the context in which the
behavior occurs. For example, screaming loudly in class.

Answer 2

deviant events

Question 3

The simple “act” that is performed. For example, screaming out loud isn’t a deviant act in itself.

Answer 3

deviant act

Question 4

people know what society expects and want to conform to that expectation

Answer 4

Internalization of group

norms

Question 5

sanctions from others in the event of anticipated or actual nonconformity to
norms.

Answer 5

External pressures

Question 6

a punishment meant to discourage

deviant conduct Formal would be imprisonment, informal would be criticism

Answer 6

Negative sanction

Question 7

Reward meant to encourage conduct that conforms to a Norm. Formal: raise in salary, informal would be Praise.

Answer 7

positive sanction

Question 8

Physical locations that could be connected to a deviant act. The place does affect the definition of deviance.

Answer 8

deviant places

Question 9

May or may not be deviant. no one is deviant all the time. The role of deviance sometimes emerges on the acts that people perform.

Answer 9

Deviant roles

Question 10

deviant act but people don’t think it’s deviant. Engaging in deviant acts while continuing to occupy conventional (normal) status and roles. It doesn’t interfere with the role. Example: physician persuading patients to get expensive procedure.

Answer 10

Primary deviance

Question 11

how people react to it. when the deviant role is reinforced through participation in a deviant subculture. Example: drug user is living as non-drug user but eventually starts participating more in the subculture in drug abuse then is considered secondary deviance.

Answer 11

Secondary Deviance