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normative definition approach - ️️A violation of a norm, or a standard about what a person should or should not do under a given circumstance; Creates reactions from society when the norms are followed typology based on middle class norms - ️️privacy/intrusion; prudence/indiscretion; co...

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SOCY 275 Mid-term
normative definition approach - ✔️✔️A violation of a norm, or a standard about what a
person should or should not do under a given circumstance; Creates reactions from
society when the norms are followed

typology based on middle class norms - ✔️✔️privacy/intrusion; prudence/indiscretion;
conventionality/bizarreness; responsibility/ irresponsibility; participation/ alienation;
moderation/hedonism and asceticism; honesty/ deceitfulness; peacefulness/disruption;
courtesy/uncouthness

what are the different approaches to deviance? - ✔️✔️statistical approach, absolutist
approach, legalistic approach, social harmfulness approach, reactive approach, group
evaluation approach, normative definition approach, synthetic approach

the statistical approach - ✔️✔️The number of people who actually engage in a
behaviour

the absolutist approach - ✔️✔️Applies conduct standards set down by the social
scientist; Focuses on fundamental moral questions; functionalist, radical/ marxian and
humanist

the legalistic approach - ✔️✔️Define the behaviour by reference of law; If the law says
that it is wrong then we are going to see it as deviant

deviance - ✔️✔️Used to describe behaviours that are socially disapproved, and
regarded by a group as immoral, illegal, or something that is subject to social sanctions
usually it is something that is inconsistent with standards of conduct within a group

Social harmfulness approach - ✔️✔️How socially, physically, emotionally, or
economically harmful some behaviour is

the reactive approach - ✔️✔️Examine behaviours where there is social disapproval,
condemnation or punishment

the group evaluation approach - ✔️✔️Identify standards with reference to the opinions
or beliefs of the group members

a synthetic approach - ✔️✔️A combination of the reactive and group evaluation
approaches

, subcultures - ✔️✔️Since different groups have different characteristics they often have
different values regarding different forms of behaviour. This means that what is deviant
in one group may not be deviant in another

deviant person - ✔️✔️is someone who had been attributed a bad character by a group
or its agents

factors associated with attributions of a deviant character - ✔️✔️social status, lifestyle,
physical characteristics, circumstances, type of behaviour

pervasiveness - ✔️✔️The amount of time and resources devoted to the activity; Some
require very little time to prepare; Terrorist groups however spend a lot of time planning
and commitment

communication - ✔️✔️The frequency and quality of communication between
participants

differentiation and coordination - ✔️✔️The degree to which there are different roles and
statuses and if they are coordinated

culture - ✔️✔️The degree to which practitioners have a distinct internal culture of their
own?
Anything that can be passed from one participant to another

self-identity - ✔️✔️The degree to which the behaviour is central to the persons self-
identity

philosophical integration - ✔️✔️The degree there are comprehensive legitimations to
justify the deviance

social control from within the group - ✔️✔️The degree the group members are subject
to sanction from violating group norms

recruitment - ✔️✔️The amount of effort (and how systemized it is) put into gaining new
practitioners

the organizational continuum - ✔️✔️The amount of effort (and how systemized it is) put
into gaining new practitioners

what are the sources of new behaviour? - ✔️✔️random events; imitation; exploration;
imposition, accommodation; invention

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