SOC 2070 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Disorganization Theory, Differential Association, Social Control Theory

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Abc"s: shunning, avoiding, no communication, arrested, criminal record, death threats, murder attitudes and beliefs behaviour and reactions characteristics and conditions. Imaginary deviance: getting upset at something that hasn"t happened. Secret deviance: no one knows and no one is reacting but if exposed. Relativity: things need to be evaluated in context. We don"t throw away our own morals but explain things independently. We don"t treat life as = accept some death as normal and some tragic. Problems w/ psychiatric approach: shouldn"t say that mental problems = deviant shouldn"t assume sane people are like us everyone has different motivations. Many things are rare and some things that are rare are good. Discreditable identity: not being stigmatized but having traits that could get stigmatized. Routine activities theory: people do things b/c they want to not sociological but reject demonic possession and religious explanations development of free will theory assumes existence of motivated perps. thus examines situations for opportunity.

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