Review 3

Question 1

rebellion

Answer 1

form of deviance likely to occur when new goals are substituted for more traditional ones, and also new means are undertaken to replace older one
by force/armed combat

Question 2

social control theory

Answer 2

type of functionalist theory that suggests that deviance occurs when a person or group’s attachment to asocial bond is weakened

Question 3

corporate crime

Answer 3

crime committed within the legitimate context of doing buisness

Question 4

elite deviance

Answer 4

wrongdoing of wealthy and powerful indiciduals

Question 5

white color crime

Answer 5

crime committed by people of high social positions in the course of their occupations

Question 6

social control t

Answer 6

the process by which groups and individuals within them, are brought into conformity with the dominant social expectations

Question 7

social control agants

Answer 7

those who regulate and administer the response to deviance

- like police or mental health workers

Question 8

W.I Thomas

Answer 8

one of the early sociologists from the university of Chicago

• one of the first to develop a sociological perspective on social deviance
• explained deviance as a normal response to the social conditions in which people find themselves & delinquency is caused by the social disorganization brought on the slum like and urban industrialism

Question 9

Differential association theory

Answer 9

type of symbolic interaction theory

- interprets deviance as learned behavior seen from others

Question 10

status symbol

Answer 10

a possession that is taken to indicate a person’s wealth or high social or professional status

Question 11

working poor

Answer 11

those who work at least 27 house a week but wages still fall below poverty line

Question 12

lower class

Answer 12

displaced and poor

• have little education
• often unemployed or working in minimum wage jobs

Question 13

lower middle class

Answer 13

-aka working class
-working in the skilled trades & low income bureaucratic, includes blue collar& service workers
sell their labor for wages (petty bourgeoisie or lumpenproletariat)

Question 14

middle class

Answer 14

social class that consists of those who have moderate income

Question 15

upper middle class

Answer 15

high income

• high prestige
• wel educatedprofesionals or excecutives

Question 16

nouveau riche

Answer 16

new money to the upper class

Question 17

upper class

Answer 17

own major share of corporate and personal wealth

Question 18

layers of social class

Answer 18

upper
upper middle
middle
lower middle
lower

Question 19

sedimentation of racial inequality

Answer 19

• melvin oliver & thomaas Shapiro

- even though discriminatory policies have ended , many continue and their effects persist

Question 20

open class system

Answer 20

placement in the class system is based on individual achievement

Question 21

closed class system

Answer 21

movement from ole class to another is virtually impossible

Question 22

lumpenproletariat

Answer 22

those who have become necessary as workers and are then discarded

Question 23

petty bourgeoisie

Answer 23

small business owners and managers who identify whith the interests of the capitalist class but do not own the means of production

Question 24

capitalist class

Answer 24

wealthy who own the means of production and buy labor of the working class

Question 25

class conflict

Answer 25

conflict between entire classes over the distribution of society's wealth and power

Question 26

multidimensional view

Answer 26

3 dimensions to stratification - class/economics - status/prestige - party/power/political defined by weber

Question 27

wealth

Answer 27

total value of what one owns minus on'e debts

Question 28

urban underclass

Answer 28

includes those who are likely to be permanently unemployed and w/out much means of economic support - little to no opportunity for movement out of the poverty, m - may become dependent on public assistance or illegal activities

Question 29

Temporary Assistance for needy families (tanf)

Answer 29

stipulates a lifetime limit of 5 years for people to receive aid and requites all welfare recipients to find work within 2 years -those who have not found jobs can be required to preform community service jobs for free

Question 30

status attainment

Answer 30

process by which people end up in a given position in the stratification system

Question 31

social status

Answer 31

a measure of class based on - income - education - occupational prestige

Question 32

social mobility

Answer 32

a person's movement over time from one class to another

Question 33

social class

Answer 33

``` social structure position groups hold relative to the economic social political cultural resources of society ```

Question 34

prestige

Answer 34

values others assign to people and groups

Question 35

poverty line

Answer 35

around of money needed to support the basic needs of a household as determined by government

Question 36

net worth

Answer 36

amount of financial assets and subtracting debts

Question 37

occupational prestige

Answer 37

subjective evaluation people five to job

Question 38

meritocracy

Answer 38

a system in which one's status is based on merit or accomplishments

Question 39

median income

Answer 39

midpoint of all household incomes

Question 40

life chances

Answer 40

the opportunities that people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class

Question 41

income

Answer 41

amount of money received in a given period

Question 42

feminization of poverty

Answer 42

large portion of poor are women and children

Question 43

ideology

Answer 43

belief systems that support the status quo

Question 44

false consciousness

Answer 44

class consciousness of subordinate classes who had internalized the view of the dominant class

Question 45

educational attainment

Answer 45

total years of formal education

Question 46

economic restructuring

Answer 46

referring to the decline of manufacturing jobs in the US, | transformation of the economy by technological change and the process of globalization

Question 47

class system

Answer 47

``` stratification exists, but a person's placement in the class system can change according to personal achievements - class depends on achieved status ```

Question 48

class consciousness

Answer 48

perception that a class structure exists along with a feeling of shared identification with others in the class

Question 49

caste system

Answer 49

one's place in the stratification system is an ascribed status

Question 50

estate system

Answer 50

ownership of property and the exercise of power is monopolized by an elite who have total control over societal resources

Question 51

bioterrorism

Answer 51

form of terrorism involving the dispersion of chemical or biological substances intended to cause disease and death

Question 52

cyberterrorism

Answer 52

use of computer to commit terrorist act

Question 53

status

Answer 53

a socially defined position in a group or society

Question 54

social differentiation

Answer 54

process by which different statuses develop in any group, organization or society

Question 55

social stratification

Answer 55

system of structured inequality

Question 56

labeling theory

Answer 56

branch of symbolic interaction theory, interprets the responses of others as the most significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is sustained and created

Question 57

label

Answer 57

assignment or attachment of a deviant identity to ap person by others including agents and social institutions

Question 58

recidivism

Answer 58

return to criminal activities

Question 59

deviant identity

Answer 59

definition person has of one's own deviant

Question 60

stigma

Answer 60

an attribute that is socially devalued and discredited | some resume in being labeled deviant

Question 61

index crimes

Answer 61

``` manslaughter murder rape robbery aggressive assult burglary ```

Question 62

personal crimes

Answer 62

violent or non violent directed against people | -ex murder, rape, robbery

Question 63

uniform crome reports

Answer 63

major source of info on patterns of crime and arrest w crimes classified as - personal - hate - property - victimless

Question 64

victimless crimes

Answer 64

violate laws but not listed as a serious crime -drug use gambling -prostitution