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In regards to deviance, what does a functionalist think?
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Nip it in the bud, put someone in prison, throwaway the key, really concerned about everybody toeing the line properly.
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Functionalists have to acknowledge that every society has some dysfunction. Why do we have dysfunction?
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Anomie - people (small/large group) where they experience a sense of giving up (Ex: useless to obey the law). Social norms are weak/conflicting so people just give up. happens when there isn't good community involvement
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Positive functions of deviance from a functionalists point of view
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1. Deviance clarifies the rules.By punishing deviant behavior, society reaffirms its commitment to the rules.
2. Deviance unites a group. When deviant behavior is seen as a threat to group solidarity and they unite in opposition to that behavior. 3. Deviance promotes a social change. It may violate the norms to get them changed. 4. Deviance provides a safety valve. A bunch of discontented people that may do some minor deviance and strike out against the social order. |
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Theories within functionalist perspective:
- People feel strained when they are exposed to cultural goals that they are unable to attain because they do not have access to culturally approved means of achieving those goals. |
Strain theory (by robert merton)
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Merton says there are 5 ways in which people adapt to cultural goals
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1. Conformity - accept the approved means
2. Innovation - occurs when people accept society's goals but they adopt disapproved means of getting them 3. Ritualism - occurs when people give up on societal goals but they still adhere to the socially approved means of achieving them 4. Retreatism - occurs when people abandoned both the approved goals and the approved means of achieving them 5. Rebellion - occurs when people don't want society says everyone is supposed to want and they won't go after it, but they also advocate alternative sets of goals and means |
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The _________ Perspective believes that when it comes to deviance, deviance is learned in the same way that conformity is learned, through interaction with others.
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Symbolic Interactionist
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What theory weighs the costs and benefits of doing something deviant?
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Rational Choice Theory, Symbolic Interactionist Perspect
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What theory states that deviance is a socially constructed process in which social control agencies designate certain people as deviants and they in turn come to accept the label placed upon them and begin to act accordingly.
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Labeling Theory
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transform moral and legal deviance into a medical condition
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Medicaliztion of deviance - example alcoholic/addiction; symbolic interactionist
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the people who often create the rules about what is deviant or conventional behavior
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moral entrepreneurs
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Conflict theorists (Conflict Theory) focus on what?
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social inequality
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Conflict theorists who focus on power relations in society suggest that lifestyles considered deviant by political and economic elites are often defined as ________.
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illegal
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The Conflict perspective says that the law defines and controls what two distinct categories of people?
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1. Social Dynamite
2. Social Junk |
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people who have been marginalized in society, would include people who blow/stir things up - ex: rioters, label organizers, gang members, criminals
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social dynamite
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people who are members of stigmatized groups ex: welfare recipients, homeless
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social junk
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norms and laws are established from the views of those in ______ and do not reflect any standards of right and wrong
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power
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