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Norm
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Rule for appropriate behavior
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Role
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Behavior expected of certain status/ position
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Types of sanctions
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Formal: fine, jail, expulsion, etc
informal: ridicule, gossip
Neg: punishment
Pos: reward
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3 forms of norms
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Mores: govern serious behavior
folkways: norms govern mundane conduct
Laws: written and enforced by gov
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Social Order
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Carried out by rules and norms
NECESSARY for equilibrium in social relations
an idealized concept, NEVER acheived
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Characteristics of a norm
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1)associated with roles 2) taught through socialization 3) accompanied by sanctions 4) tend to reflect cultures values 5)take a variety of forms
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Consequences of social order
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Too much leads to more probs
no social order = chaos
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3 types of variations in deviant behavior
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- temporal
-cultural
-situtaional
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4 ways to conceptualize deviance
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1) absolutist definiton
2) Statistical definition
3) normative conception
4) Reactivist Conception
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Absolutist Definition
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Certain actions qualify as deviant bc they have always been defined that way (Bible, Koran, etc)
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Statistical Definition
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Behavior that is rare or strays from statistical average
leads to confusion bc logically the minority is always considered deviant
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Normative Conception
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"old conception"
deviant behavior violates a norm
prob: there are so many norms, everyone can be considered deviant
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Reactivist Conception
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"new conception". deviant behavior is labeled that way.
act = not important REACTION = important
Probs: doesnt consider why, ignores norms
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Moral Entrepreneurs
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Interest groups promote personal set of moral values in attempt to control social life
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Argument in Defining Deviance Down- DP Moynihan
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Moral standards have been altered to accommodate amount of deviance overtime. More things have become "less serious". *Durkheim and Kai Erikson
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