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Soc 340 Violence Test 1
spring 14
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
02/11/2014

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Anomie
Definition
disjuncture between culturally defined goals in a society and the institutionalized ways to attain them
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Robert Merton
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coined anomie
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Social Control theory
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Why do individuals conform to social norms? because they are bonded to society
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Aspects of indivudals bond to society
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attachment, commitment, involvement, belief
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attachment
Definition
the extent to which we have emotional connections to others and care about their wishes and expectations of us.
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Commitment
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We sometimes obey rules simply out of fear of consequences. We weigh costs and benefits.
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Gottfrefdon and Hirschi say is most common characteristic of criminals
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low self-control
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Criminal acts provide
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few or meager long-term benefits and easy or simple gratification
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Social structure
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Describes the social positions or statuses people occupy (e.g., parent, employee, and student) and the behavioral expectations attached to them (e.g., prepare meals, show up for work, and take tests
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Social institutions
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relatively stable configuration of statuses, roles, values, and norms that emerge from the basic functional requirements of society
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Ecological fallacy
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Making individual-level inferences based on aggregate-level data/results
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code of the streets
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a functional adaptation to life in the inner cities
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