Test 1 Flashcards

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Culture relativism

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Each culture relative to own values

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Culture

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

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Desocialization

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New identification (prison, army)

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Socialization

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Lifelong process learning to be human

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Cooley “looking glass self”

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We see ourselves as others see us

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Mead “role playing”

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We use significant others as reference groups

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Freud “conflict model”

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Between the id and superego is the ego

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Primary social interaction

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Face to face, reoccurring, emotional attachment

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secondary social interaction

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Short lived, one location, no emotional attachment

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Status

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Who we are

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Ascribed status

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Born with, inherit

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Achieved

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Acquired after birth

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Roles

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Behaviors associated with status

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Role set

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Group of behavior

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Deviance

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Behavior that exceeds role tolerance

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Perspectives of deviance

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

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Durkheim

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Need to deviance to maintain boundaries

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Labeling theory

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Teacher labels kid as troublemaker, now seen as troublemaker

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Primary deviance

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Act or behavior labeled as deviant

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Secondary deviance

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

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Stigmatization

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Labels have huge effects

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Conflict model of deviance

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

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Class based definition

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Most influential decide laws

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FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports

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

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Type I crimes
Crimes against persons or property
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7 index crimes
Murder, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larcency-theft, auto theft
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Type II crimes
Prostitution, drug use, vandalism, gambling, etc
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4 problems in reporting crime
Only Type I crimes Must be recorded by police If multiple crimes, only most serious recorded Under reporting (victimization studies)
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Crime has been declining since
1990s
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Increasing % of what murders?
Random
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Auto theft is now by more
Professionals
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2 trends of criminal justice system
Professionalization of police and overcrowding of courts
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4 functions of prisons
Incapacitate, punish, deter or re socialize
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3 problems of prisons
Overcrowding--difficult to control Is parole just/safe? Mandatory sentences--old prisoners become burdensome
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Increasing incarceration since when? Why?
1972-- Nixon's war on drugs
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Ethnomethodology
You can discover social order by disrupting it
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Characteristics of culture
Shared, learned, taken for granted, symbolic, varies, concrete and abstract
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Dominant culture
Culture of most powerful group
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Subculture
Different from dominant (immigrant)
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Ethnocentrism
See only from one pov; everyone has some
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Cultural relativism
Understood only in cultural context