| A | B |
|---|
| cooperation | combining efforts to achieve a goal |
| conflict | goal is to defeat your opponent |
| social exchange | behaving in a way to get a reward in return |
| coercion | forced cooperation |
| conformity | matching your behavior to the group |
| groupthink | self-deceptive thinking that is based on conformity to group beliefs |
| Solomon Asch | studied conformity with a line judging experiment |
| Stanley Milgram | studied obedience with a shock giving experiment |
| deviant | a person who breaks significant societal norms |
| social control | ways to encourage conformity to society's norms |
| sanctions | rewards/punishments that encourage conformity to norms |
| anomie | norms are weak, conflicting or absent - encourages deviance |
| strain theory | deviance occurs when there is a gap between goals and the ability to achieve goals by legitimate means |
| conformity as response to strain | accept goal and means |
| innovation | accept goal but use illegal means |
| ritualism | rejects the goal but accepts means (go through motions) |
| retreatism | means and goals are rejected |
| rebellion | means and goals are rejected but a new goal is substituted |
| control theory | deviance occurs when people don't have strong bonds with society |
| attachment | less likely to be deviant if you are close to family/friends (control theory) |
| commitment | less likely to deviate if your are commited to goals (control theory) |
| involvement | less likely to deviate if you are participating in activities in society (control theory) |
| belief | less likely to deviate if you accept the norms/values of society (control theory) |
| differential association theory | people deviate in proportion to the # of deviant acts they are exposed to (SI) |
| labeling theory | society creates deviance by naming people as deviants (SI) |
| primary deviance | occasionally being deviant |
| secondary deviance | deviance as a way of life |
| stigma | undesirable label |
| victim discounting | crimes against people of lower status are not as serious |
| white-collar crime | job-related crimes committed by high-status people |
| criminal justice system | system of institutions/processes responsible for enforcing criminal statutes |
| deterrence | discouraging crime by threatening punishment |
| retribution | criminal must pay for their crimes |
| incarceration | prison |
| rehabilitation | reforming a criminal through socialization |
| recidivism | a return to criminal behavior |
