Test 1

Question 0

Culture relativism

Answer 0

Each culture relative to own values

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Complex meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society

Question 2

Desocialization

Answer 2

New identification (prison, army)

Question 3

Socialization

Answer 3

Lifelong process learning to be human

Question 4

Cooley “looking glass self”

Answer 4

We see ourselves as others see us

Question 5

Mead “role playing”

Answer 5

We use significant others as reference groups

Question 6

Freud “conflict model”

Answer 6

Between the id and superego is the ego

Question 7

Primary social interaction

Answer 7

Face to face, reoccurring, emotional attachment

Question 8

secondary social interaction

Answer 8

Short lived, one location, no emotional attachment

Question 9

Status

Answer 9

Who we are

Question 10

Ascribed status

Answer 10

Born with, inherit

Question 11

Achieved

Answer 11

Acquired after birth

Question 12

Roles

Answer 12

Behaviors associated with status

Question 13

Role set

Answer 13

Group of behavior

Question 14

Deviance

Answer 14

Behavior that exceeds role tolerance

Question 15

Perspectives of deviance

Answer 15

Religious, biological, medical, psychological, learning theory (learn subgroup norms), economic

Question 16

Durkheim

Answer 16

Need to deviance to maintain boundaries

Question 17

Labeling theory

Answer 17

Teacher labels kid as troublemaker, now seen as troublemaker

Question 18

Primary deviance

Answer 18

Act or behavior labeled as deviant

Question 19

Secondary deviance

Answer 19

If others treat you as deviant, you will fulfill that prophecy

Question 20

Stigmatization

Answer 20

Labels have huge effects

Question 21

Conflict model of deviance

Answer 21

Where do norms come from and who decides right from wrong?

Question 22

Class based definition

Answer 22

Most influential decide laws

Question 23

FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports

Answer 23

Began in 1960s, collect and report data on index crimes

Question 24

Type I crimes

Answer 24

Crimes against persons or property

Question 25

7 index crimes

Answer 25

Murder, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larcency-theft, auto theft

Question 26

Type II crimes

Answer 26

Prostitution, drug use, vandalism, gambling, etc

Question 27

4 problems in reporting crime

Answer 27

Only Type I crimes
Must be recorded by police
If multiple crimes, only most serious recorded
Under reporting (victimization studies)

Question 28

Crime has been declining since

Answer 28

1990s

Question 29

Increasing % of what murders?

Answer 29

Random

Question 30

Auto theft is now by more

Answer 30

Professionals

Question 31

2 trends of criminal justice system

Answer 31

Professionalization of police and overcrowding of courts

Question 32

4 functions of prisons

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Incapacitate, punish, deter or re socialize

Question 33

3 problems of prisons

Answer 33

Overcrowding–difficult to control
Is parole just/safe?
Mandatory sentences–old prisoners become burdensome

Question 34

Increasing incarceration since when? Why?

Answer 34

1972– Nixon’s war on drugs

Question 35

Ethnomethodology

Answer 35

You can discover social order by disrupting it

Question 36

Characteristics of culture

Answer 36

Shared, learned, taken for granted, symbolic, varies, concrete and abstract

Question 37

Dominant culture

Answer 37

Culture of most powerful group

Question 38

Subculture

Answer 38

Different from dominant (immigrant)

Question 39

Ethnocentrism

Answer 39

See only from one pov; everyone has some

Question 40

Cultural relativism

Answer 40

Understood only in cultural context