| A | B |
|---|
| Deviance | Behavior the violates significant social norms |
| Stigma | Mark of social disgrace |
| Anomie | Situation that arises when the norms of society are unclear or are no longer applicable. |
| White collar crime | A crime committed by an individual of high social class. |
| Crime | Any act that is prohibited and punishable by law. |
| Differential association | The proportion of associations a person has with deviant or non-deviant individuals. |
| Primary deviance | Non-conformity that goes undetected by those in authority. |
| Recidivism | Repeated criminal behavior. |
| Plea bargaining | Pleading guilty to a lesser charge in return for a lighter sentence. |
| Innovation | When people accept society's goals but not the means for attaining these goals. |
| Conformity | When people accept both the cultural goals of society and the means for achieving these goals. |
| Structural-Strain | Robert Merton's functionalist theory that views deviance as the nathural outgrowth of the values, norms and structure of society when not all people have the means to attain these goals. |
| Ritualism | People continue to When people give up the goals of society because they cannot attain them by acceptable means. |
| Retreatism | When individuals reject both the cultural goals and means to attain the goals. |
| Rebellion | Individuals who reject the cultural goals and means and attempt to substitute a new set. |
| Labeling theory | Once a person has been identified as deviant, and accepts that label, his life changes and it becomes his master status. |
| Conflict theory | Belief that competition and inequality lead to deviance...the struggle between the have's and the have not's. |
| Control theory | Deviance is the natural occurance and conformity is established only through social control. |
