Match the term to its definition by filling in the letter or letters before the term in the appropriate blank.

____ A component of social control theory referring to emotional bonds with other people in society.
____ People who share the goals of society with conformists but employ illegitimate means to obtain those goals.
____ Component of social control theory referring to people's respect for law and order in society.
____ Component of social control theory referring to an individual's desire to obtain societal goals through legitimate means.
____ People who try to obtain the goals of society through accepted means.
____ Keeping a known stigma from creating tensions in interactions by downplaying it.
____ Any behavior that departs from accepted practices in a society or group.
____ Theory that deviance is learned through interaction with others.
____ Less-serious rules of behavior in a group or society.
____ The process by which individuals index thoughts,feelings,and behaviors from their own perspective.
____ Component of social control theory referring to people's participation in acceptable social activities such as clubs,churches and other organizations.
____ Theory that argues that deviance is a consequence of a social process in which a negative characteristic becomes an element of an individual's identity.
____ Violations of behavior prescribed through mores.
____ Widely held values and beliefs in a society.
____ People labeled as deviants who accept the deviant labels.
____ Attempts to hide an undisclosed stigma by concealing information about it.
____ The process by which individuals think about a behavior within its social context and give meaning to it.
____ Reinterpretations of past behaviors in light of the person's new role as a deviant.
____ The initial deviant act that causes other people to label the individual a deviant.
____ When individuals seek to challenge either the traditional goals or the accepted means of achieving those goals.
____ Someone who approves of the ways people should live their lives but gives up trying to obtain societal goals.
____ Additional deviant acts that support the initial deviant label.
____ Theory that deviance results when individuals' bonds with conventional society are weakened in some way.
____ Crimes typically associated with middle- and upper-class individuals,such as embezzlement,cheating,and laundering money.
____ An attribute that is deeply discrediting.
____ Theory that argues that people choose to commit deviance as a natural outcome of social conditions in which socially acceptable goals cannot be obtained through legitimate means.
____ The state's attempts to maintain social order through police and courts and other representatives of the state.
____ A sense of "normlessness," where there is little consensus about what is right and wrong.

Which of the Following Statements Best Describes Interactionist Perspective(s)on Deviance

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