Part 1 STudy Guide

Deviance and crime-violation of social normsNorms-behavioral codes that guide people into actionsWilliam Sumner (1907)- defined 3 types of norms Folkways-simple, everyday norms based on custom, tradition, etiquette-violations: eating with hands, picking nosemores- broad societal morals whose interaction would generate more serious social condemnation-violations: interracial marriages, drug addictionslaws-strongest because supported by codified social sanctions-being arrested2. Constructing Deviance-3 perspectivesabsolutist-simple taskrelativist-norms that differed from or conflicted with larger societysocial power perspective-views on crime and deviance are not arbitraly formed by just any group of othersSmith and Pollack- crime, sin, poor tastecrime violates laws, sin is religous, poor taste violates folkwaysABC of Deviance- attitude, behavior, conditions atttitude-belied systems-no religion behavior-actions-murder, smoking weed conditions-poor or rich, race, born into the world of deviance-not in ones control 3 Categories of S's-sin, sick, selected sin- religious disorder sick-mental illness selected-behaviors intentionally selected as forms of recreation, lifestyle choices, coping strategies Community Boundaries-boundary maintaining members continue to a certain limit and expectationboundaries never fixed and always changing to find new ways to define out limitsDeviance and Middle Class Norms negative deviance-non conformity-negatively evaluated deviance admiration-non conformity-negatively evaluated rate busting-overconformity-negatively evaluated positive deviance- overconformity-positively evaluated Definitions of Deviance absolutist approach-rejected-high morals and doing good statistical approach-rejected- deviance is rare behaviors normative-violation of social norms reactivist-dynamics of reactions and evaluations of a social audience deviance was created by society Natural Law and the Sociology of Deviance moral order-common worldview-moral judgements Durkheim-founding father of Sociology of Deviance-deviance is integral part of all societies because it affirms to cultural norms and values Daniel Patrick Moynihan- defining deviancy down- decline quality of life through unqualified acceptance of too many activists formerly considered unaccepted-teenage pregnancy, abortion and drug abuse Defining deviancy up-opposite view Daniel never touched on- Mothers Against Drunk Drivers Alasadir Macintyre-culture dominated by experts and victims natural law-acknowledgment that we are not ultimate creators of moral anomie- state of normalness that sociologists identify as resulting when one is caught between the loosening moral norms