| A | B |
| Stigma | Defect such as Mental Retardation or AIDS |
| Absolutist perspective on deviance | Right and wrong exsist prior to society. |
| Relativism perspective on deviance | Society constructs deviance; no absolute right and wrong |
| Socialization | the process through which one learns how to accordingly |
| Families | your going to have to read about that one |
| Dramaturgy | Social Interaction as a "real life" play |
| Impression Management | Attempting to construct and maintain a positive image of yourself |
| Embarrassment | Feeling when public identity is discredited |
| Embarrassment/ Spoiled Identity Recovery | Verbal Explainations; beyond my control, minimal harm, higher motives; accept apology and move on |
| Labeling Theory | people my file any individual into a category or group of some kind |
| Goal of Socialization | Make us able to operate in the invisable culture. |
| Agents of Socialization | people, organizations, or groups that pass along content and ideas |
| Effect of marriage | Men benifit more, recieving the Pschological well-being and longevity that the females do not; unequal division of home labor remains |
| stereotype | the overgeneralization of a group |
| Front Stage | where the performance occurs |
| Back Stage | Prepartations are made; rules are suspended and norms are violated |
| Divorce trends | they have gone up in the past century. Marriages after the first are more likely to result in divorce |
| change in family functions | sharing with other social institutions; refocus on remaining functions |
| Conflict view of Family | Family involves power; male and female; Parents over kids; Elders over young |
| Individualism vs Collectivism | Individualism sublimates goals to benefit the group; in Collectivism the success of the group counts and individuals will make sacrifices for the group |
| Endogamy | marriage within the group |
| Exogamy | rules of marriage outside of the group |
| monogomy | married to one and only one |
| polygamy | married to many at the same time |
| Serial monogamy | married to many at different times |
| biological determinism | how do genes and hormones shape us? how are our fates determined by this? |
| Definition of family | both a group and a way that we organize social relations on a consistant basis with rules and structures for relationships |
| Looking Glass self | They way that you view your self and your place in society |
| criminalization | when one commits a crime; crime does not equal deviance; punishment |
| medicalization | treat deviance as an illness |
| three requisites for deviance to occur | 1. Expectation 2. Violation (real or alleged) 3. Reaction (by society or individuals or groups) |
| Criminal age | most criminals (except gabling) are 30 or younger |
| account | a verbal statement designed to explain unantipated, embarassing, or unacceptable behavior (an excuse) |
| disclaimer | a verbal assertion given before the fact to forestall any negative implications |
| performance team | those individuals who intimately cooperate in staging a performance that leads to form an impression of one or all of the team members. |
| anticipatory socialization | the primary means by which young individuals acquire the values and orientations found in the statuses they will likely enter in the future |
| resocialization | a new set of norms, values, and expectations acquired when one enters a new role |
| Conflict theory on law | the disadvantaged are more often criminals; Various social groups are treated differently |
| Street crime vs White collar | Street crimes are mostly social deviance |
| Trends of migration from the South | Jobs were aplenty and then few; the white man still keepin the black man down |