Functionalism and interactionism

Question 1

Who came up with FURI?

Answer 1

Durkheim

Question 2

What are Durkheim two functions of crime?

Answer 2

• Boundary maintenance (members against wrong doer)

- Adaption and change

Question 3

Who came up with safety valve (prostitution)

Answer 3

Davis

Question 4

What did Davis say?

Answer 4

Safety valve, prostitution

Question 5

Who came up with warning light?

Answer 5

Cohen

Question 6

Who came up with strain theory

Answer 6

Merton

Question 7

What did Merton say

Answer 7

Strain theory

Question 8

What is strain theory?

Answer 8

Deviance is an adaption to the strain of achieving society’s shared goals eg American dream

Question 9

What are the adaptions to strain

Answer 9

Conformity
Innovation
Ritualism
Retreatism
Rebellion

Question 10

What are conformists attitudes

Answer 10

Want goal, achieve it legitimately

Question 11

What are innovation peoples attitudes

Answer 11

Want goal, achieve it illegitimately

Question 12

What are ritualism peoples attitudes

Answer 12

Reject goal, follow law

Question 13

What are retreatist attitudes

Answer 13

Reject goal, illegal

Question 14

What are rebellion peoples attitudes

Answer 14

Reject goal for new goal, illegal

Question 15

Who came up with status frustration

Answer 15

Cohen

Question 16

What did Ak Cohen say

Answer 16

Status frustration

Question 17

What does strain focus on

Answer 17

Utilitarian crime

Individuals crime

Question 18

What does deviance provide according to Cohen

Answer 18

Alternative status hierarchy

Question 19

What did cloward and ohlin say

Answer 19

Three subcultures

Question 20

Who came up with three subcultures

Answer 20

Cloward and ohlin

Question 21

What are the three subcultures

Answer 21

Criminal
Conflict
Retreatist

Question 22

What are subcultures a result of

Answer 22

Unequal access to illegitimate opportunities and legitimate opportunities

Question 23

What did Becker say

Answer 23

An act or person only becomes deviant when labelled by others as deviant

Question 24

who came up with typifications

Answer 24

Cicourel

Question 25

What did cicourel say

Answer 25

Typifications (police affect WC who fit into stereotype)

Question 26

What did cicourel say about crime stats

Answer 26

We cannot take them as face value, we should treat them as a topic for investigation of the process of which they are constructed

Question 27

What is primary deviance

Answer 27

Acts that haven’t been publicly labelled

Question 28

What is secondary deviance

Answer 28

Acts which have been publicly labelled

Question 29

What did young study

Answer 29

Hippy marijuana users

Question 30

What did Young’s study find

Answer 30

Police persecution of the hippies as junkies led them to retreat into closed groups and develop deviant subculture

Question 31

Who studied hippies

Answer 31

Young

Question 32

Who came up with folk devils and moral panics/mods and rockers

Answer 32

Cohen

Question 33

What did cohens study find

Answer 33

Media began moral panic and marginalised mods and rockers as folk devils, causing more deviance

Question 34

What did cohen study

Answer 34

Mods and rockers

Question 35

What did Lemert say

Answer 35

Socially awkward individuals may be excluded from groups. Eg negative response to individual makes people think they are paranoid. “mental patient” label makes that their master status (Think joker)

Question 36

What did goffman say

Answer 36

Patients in psychiatric hospitals undergo a mortification of the self and their identity is killed off by degradation rituals