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| Altruistic suicide | the type of suicide that can occur when there is excessive regulation of individuals by social forces. |
| Anomic suicide | the type of suicide occurring when there are disintegrating forces in the society that make individuals feel lost or alone. |
| Anomie | the condition existing when social regulations (norms) in a society break down. |
| Deviance | behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms. |
| Deviant career | the sequence of movements people make through a particular system of deviance. |
| Deviant community | groups that are organized around particular forms of social deviance. |
| Deviant identity | the definition a person has for himself or herself as a deviant. |
| Differential association theory | theory that interprets deviance as behavior one learns through interaction with others. |
| Egoistic suicide | the type of suicide that occurs when people feel totally detached from society. |
| Elite deviance | the wrongdoing of wealthy and powerful individuals and organizations. |
| Labeling theory | a theory that interprets the responses of others as most significant in understanding deviant behavior. |
| Medicalization of deviance | explanations of deviant behavior that interpret deviance as the result of individual pathology or sickness. |
| Moral entrepreneurs | people who organize a social movement to reform how a particular behavior is morally perceived and handled. |
| Primary deviance | the violation of a norm or law. |
| Secondary deviance | behavior that results from being labeled deviant |
| Social control | a process by which groups and individuals within those groups are brought into conformity and dominant social expectations. |
| Social control agents | those who institutionally regulate and administer responses to deviance |
| Social control theory | theory that explains deviance as the result of the weakening of social bonds. |
| Stigma | an attribute that is socially devalued and discredited. |
| Structural strain theory | a theory that interprets deviance as originating in the tensions that exist in society between cultural goals and the means people have to achieve those goals. |
| Tertiary deviance | deviance that occurs when the deviant fully accepts the deviant role |
