Deviance (8.1)
Across
- 2. Perspective the concern with how the different elements of a society contribute to the whole.
- 4. A handful of people rebel, replacing a society’s goals and means with their own. Terrorists or freedom fighters look to overthrow a society’s goals through socially unacceptable means.
- 6. refers to the investments we make in the community.
- 11. association theory says that criminal behavior is learned by interacting with close friends and family members.
- 12. theory says that labeling someone deviant increases the chances that the labeled person will continue to commit deviance.
- 15. Those who conform choose not to deviate. They pursue their goals to the extent that they can through socially accepted mean.
- 16. social control controls behavior that may violate formal norms.
- 17. Others retreat and reject society’s goals and means. Some beggars and street people have withdrawn from society’s goal of financial success.
- 20. is an agreement on common values in society.
- 21. People who ritualize lower their goals until they can reach them through socially acceptable ways. These members of society focus on conformity rather than attaining a distant dream.
- 22. Essential Nature of Deviance the belief that deviance is a necessary part of a successful society.
Down
- 1. control how society tries to prevent deviance.
- 3. social control controls behavior that may violate informal norms.
- 5. Those who innovate pursue goals they cannot reach through legitimate means by instead using criminal or deviant means.
- 7. measures our connections to others.
- 8. deviance theory suggests that conformity to the prevailing cultural norms of lower-class society causes crime.
- 9. Durkheim founder of sociology, says that a society without deviance is impossible.
- 10. in space when behavior may be considered deviant in one society but acceptable in another society.
- 13. theory looks to social and economic factors as the causes of crime and deviance.
- 14. S. Becker who wrote that deviance occurs because of the application by others of rules.
- 18. of deviance Depending on the situation a behavior occurs determines whether a behavior is considered deviant.
- 19. when you go against societal norms.