Ucsp 2

• it is defined as recognized violation in culture norms.

  Deviance
• is one category of deviance which is defined as violation of a society’s formally enacted criminal law.

  Crime
• the regulations, sanctions, mechanisms, and systems that restrict the behavior of individuals in accordance with social norms and orders. It involves either forceful or persuasive ways of making individuals behave in certain way.

  Social control
• is a formal response by police, courts, and prison officials to alleged violation of laws.

  Criminal justice system
• Scholars have developed theories that attempt to explain what deviance and crime mean to society.

  Form of deviance
• These theories are grouped according to the three major sociological paradigms.

  Functionalism, Symbolic interactionism, and Conflict theory.
• provided a thorough comparison of the three sociological theories.

  Openstax 2015
• Concerned with the way the different element of a society contribute to the whole.

  Functionalism
• Explain how society and/or social groups come to view behaviors as deviant or conventional.


  Symbolics interactionism
• Social and economic factors as the causes of crimes and deviance.

  Conflict theory
• Sociologist Robert Merton agreed that deviance is an inherent part of a functioning society, but he expanded on Durkheim’s ideas by developing b strain theory, which notes that access to socially acceptable goals plays a part in determining whether a person conforms or deviates.
• presents 5 kinds of deviance according to the said criteria.

  Merton
• typology is bounded by two criteria

  person’s motivations and person’s belief in how to attain his goals.
• involves the “acceptance of the cultural goals and means of attaining those goals.

  Conformity
• the acceptance of the goals of a culture but the rejection of the traditional and/or legitimate means of attaining those goals

  Innovation
• the rejection of cultural goals but the routinized acceptance of the means for achieving the goals.”

  Ritualism
• the rejection of both the cultural goals and the traditional means of achieving those goals.”

  Retreatism
• is a special case wherein the individual rejects both the cultural goals and traditional means of achieving them but actively attempts to replace both elements of the society with different goals and means.”

  Rebellion