SOC 1025 Final Exam 51 Questions with Answers.
Social Control - ANS Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior
We are all participants
Formal Social control - ANS Laws, codified, written down
Enforced with laws regulated by the government and the criminal justice system
informal social control - ANS Norms exercised by society that are not explicitly stated in the
rules and laws
Dress codes
deviance as objective - ANS statistical rarity, harm caused, normative violation, negative
societal reaction
society looks for a specific trait - something that makes deviance identifiable
Deviance - ANS the recognized violation of cultural norms
moral panic - ANS Things people overact to and blow out of proportion
Deviance as subjective - ANS deviance is socially constructed
something is deviant if enough "important" people say so
high consensus deviance - ANS Norm violations that most people in society agree are
wrong
ie. murder
low consensus deviance - ANS Forms of deviance about which there are low levels of
agreement in society
, eg. weed
Photovoice - ANS A method used in participatory action research in which subjects take
pictures with accompanying stories
help inform you where your research is going
Criminology - ANS the academic discipline that focuses on the study of crime and those
labelled as criminals
criminologist - ANS scholars who focus their analysis on crime
crime - ANS behaviours that violate criminal law
conflict theory and crime - ANS Argues that the ruling class creates and uses the law as a
tool for oppressing the powerless groups
interactionist theory and crime - ANS argues that legislation emerges from interactions
between special interest groups who have identified a social problem problem and power
groups to resolve problem
Public law - ANS concerns relationships between individuals and the state
private law - ANS disputes between private individuals
summary conviction offences - ANS least harm
ie. posesssion of weed
max punishment 2 years, $2000 or both
indictable offences - ANS most harm
ie. murder, assault
Social Control - ANS Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior
We are all participants
Formal Social control - ANS Laws, codified, written down
Enforced with laws regulated by the government and the criminal justice system
informal social control - ANS Norms exercised by society that are not explicitly stated in the
rules and laws
Dress codes
deviance as objective - ANS statistical rarity, harm caused, normative violation, negative
societal reaction
society looks for a specific trait - something that makes deviance identifiable
Deviance - ANS the recognized violation of cultural norms
moral panic - ANS Things people overact to and blow out of proportion
Deviance as subjective - ANS deviance is socially constructed
something is deviant if enough "important" people say so
high consensus deviance - ANS Norm violations that most people in society agree are
wrong
ie. murder
low consensus deviance - ANS Forms of deviance about which there are low levels of
agreement in society
, eg. weed
Photovoice - ANS A method used in participatory action research in which subjects take
pictures with accompanying stories
help inform you where your research is going
Criminology - ANS the academic discipline that focuses on the study of crime and those
labelled as criminals
criminologist - ANS scholars who focus their analysis on crime
crime - ANS behaviours that violate criminal law
conflict theory and crime - ANS Argues that the ruling class creates and uses the law as a
tool for oppressing the powerless groups
interactionist theory and crime - ANS argues that legislation emerges from interactions
between special interest groups who have identified a social problem problem and power
groups to resolve problem
Public law - ANS concerns relationships between individuals and the state
private law - ANS disputes between private individuals
summary conviction offences - ANS least harm
ie. posesssion of weed
max punishment 2 years, $2000 or both
indictable offences - ANS most harm
ie. murder, assault
