Exam 6: Identifying Deviant Behavior

Individuating information acts to reduce stereotypical ideas about the status of an individual who has been stigmatized.

According to Durkheim, anomie occurs when the bonds between society and the individuals become firmly interconnected.

A woman accused of assault defends herself by explaining that the other person encouraged the attack by calling her names. What is occurring?

What is the normative approach to deviance?

People who are labeled as deviant, but have NOT committed an act of crime or violated social norms, are what Howard Becker refers to as ______.

In his book, Punished, Victor Rios talks about how in low-income Black and Latino boys' social world, the normal misbehavior of adolescence such as fighting is treated as serious crime in need of criminal justice intervention. He calls this environment ______.

Rule breaking that is not labeled deviant is ______ deviance.

A teenage girl is caught smoking marijuana. When asked why she did it, she claims that she isn't to blame, but rather her friends are because they told her to. This is an example of which technique of neutralization?

Most cultures regard marital infidelity as deviant. Which perspective would view it as deviant even in cultures where it is socially acceptable?

Which theorist was one of the first to explain how deviance varied in rates across place, time, and groups?

How would a moral entrepreneur introduce a folk devil to reduce acceptance of divorce?

A man dresses as a pirate and walks around town. How would the legalistic approach to deviance view this behavior?

Emile Durkheim argued that in times of great social change, norms that constrain deviant behavior fail. He used the term ______ to describe this.

Choose three of the five neutralization techniques, define them and give an example of each.

Fabrication occurs as an individual creates a false persona in order to avoid stigma.

Which of these is a component of moral conversion?

A politician employs illegal immigrants for housekeeping services. A nearby restaurant also employs illegal immigrants. The restaurant is fined, but the politician does NOT suffer any consequences. How would social location explain this?

Define and describe the three compensatory strategies.

The statement, "If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences." is the gist of ______.

Related to the Thomas theorem, Franklin Tannenbaum determined that police reactions to the ordinary rule-breaking behaviors of adolescents construct them as deviant or "bad," and it's the label that makes the acts deviant, not the acts themselves.