Deviant Behavior Final

Question 1

(Durkheim and Erikson) Deviance and the symbolic boundaries of a community

Answer 1

All social groups recognize deviance in some sort.

Question 2

Tearoom research methods used.

Answer 2

Observations, Interviews, and surveys.

Question 3

types of participants and their political views

Answer 3

the more open there liberal the more closed there conservative

Question 4

reasons for elaborate patterns of action

Answer 4

to see who wants sex or to who just wants to use the bathroom

Question 5

breastplate of righteousness (and its theoretical insight)

Answer 5

elaborate hiding mechanism - shows hidden deviance still has to be managed

Question 6

functionality of a serial killer

Answer 6

• link serial murder and moral panic
• entertainment
• use for media/public consumption

Question 7

conspiratorial Gnosticism

Answer 7

appeal of conspiracies is because its hidden knowledge

Question 8

how many Americans believe in made up stuff

Answer 8

1/3

Question 9

predictors of conspiracy beliefs

Answer 9

Overall levels of fear, paranormal belief, supernatural evil, smart phone use.

Question 10

satanic panic - importance of experts in the panic

Answer 10

therapists and police give legitimacy

Question 11

anti-drug abuse acts 1986 and 1988

Answer 11

still federal law

Question 12

crack to coke ratio

Answer 12

100/1

Question 13

percentage of those imprisoned under the law who are minorities

Answer 13

80% African American

Question 14

what is white flight

Answer 14

middle/upper leave location resulting in poverty

Question 15

hiders

Answer 15

high conventionality, information control, low deviant identity

Question 16

outsider

Answer 16

high in conventional deviant identity

Question 17

insider

Answer 17

low conventionality, high deviant identity

Question 18

drifter

Answer 18

low in both

Question 19

DAT key concept

Answer 19

definitions unfavorable

Question 20

DAT act for reference groups

Answer 20

sociological self

Question 21

DAT deviance is no innate it is learned

Answer 21

learned behavior

Question 22

DAT everybody blends in

Answer 22

critsism

Question 23

GST

Answer 23

focuses on negative emotion that is coped in a negative way

Question 24

social disorganization

Answer 24

institutional breakdown created area of crime

Question 25

social control

Answer 25

assumption of natural deviance, (stakes in conformity) explain why people don't do deviant things

Question 26

self-control traits

Answer 26

impulsivity

Question 27

prohibition - rhetorical strategy used by WONPR

Answer 27

appeal to conventionality

Question 28

anti saloon league tactics

Answer 28

single issue lobbying group

Question 29

cannabis legalization public opinion over last 30 years

Answer 29

favorable to legalization

Question 30

strongest predictor for and against legalization

Answer 30

state predictor

Question 31

seven elements of drug scares

Answer 31

1. curnell of truth 2. media magnification 3. moral and political entrepueners 4. proffesional interest groups 5. linking drug use to dangerous people 6. scape goating 7. social context of conflict

Question 32

moral panics and what they teach us about deviance and punishment

Answer 32

threat dissproportionate deviance amplification spiral med/public get worked up

Question 33

west boro- who they are why they protest

Answer 33

lawyers - anti gay, angry god deviant but not criminal

Question 34

prohibition

Answer 34

The passage of the 18th Amendment followed the typical pattern of a drug scare, using moral panic and scapegoating of alcohol to justify harsh legal control and suppress broader social anxieties. Pauline Sabin and the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform successfully led the repeal by reframing Prohibition as a threat to law, family, and economic stability, using respectable female leadership to shift public opinion and pressure lawmakers.

Question 35

Mass incarceration

Answer 35

Mass incarceration in the U.S. has grown out of shifting social policies—like mandatory minimums and the War on Drugs—despite crime rates falling significantly over the last 30 years, with incarceration rates remaining disproportionately high, especially for Black and Latino men from low-income, urban communities. Social disorganization theory, along with “white flight” and concentrated poverty, helps explain how certain neighborhoods became over-policed, while public opinion favoring harsh punishment has sustained a system where a criminal record leads to lifelong barriers in employment, housing, and civic life.

Question 36

Outline an interactionist and cultural approach to deviance.

Answer 36

The interactionist and cultural approaches view deviance as socially constructed through labeling, stigma, impression management, and moral panic, emphasizing how societal reactions—rather than the acts themselves—define deviance. For example, men in Tearoom Trade used passing and deviance management to conceal stigmatized behavior, while public outrage toward the Westboro Baptist Church reflected a moral panic shaped by cultural norms of respect and mourning.