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Final KIN 306 Deviance, Aggression
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/14/2017

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Term
Deviance
Definition
Behavior, belief or condition that violates social norms, values, ideology or rules within a group. Draws mild to severe sanctions.
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Hazing
Definition
Mental or physical harm or anxiety and demeaning or degrading behavior regardless of intent or consent.
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Strain Theory
Definition
Structural strain develops when goals of the social system cannot be achieved through socially approved means. Leads to deviance.
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Agression
Definition
Infliction of an adverse stimulus, physical, verbal or gestural, upon one person by another.

Hostile: Primary goal is to inflict injury or psychological harm.

Instrumental: Occurs during process of non-aggressive goal.

Controlled: Planned release of aggressive behavior.
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Violence
Definition
Physical assault-type behavior that has the potential to or does injure another person. Four types:

Brutal body contact- tackle, hockey check.
Borderline violence- Illegal violence but routinely utilized, (bean ball in baseball.)
Quasi-criminal violence: Violation of rules and player norms, (Rush mound.)
Criminal violence: Actions seen as criminal regardless of sport.
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Hooliganism
Definition
Working class men who disrupt soccer games with antisocial behavior. (Green Street Hooligans).
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