4th quarter - 3rd week

• the tendency for an individual to align their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors with those of the people around them.

  Conformity
• The “chameleon effect” a socio-psychological phenomenon

  wherein people tend to make themselves blend into the

  environment.
• Why do we conform?

  Pragmatic reasons, Motivational, and Group Persuasion
• any behavior that violates social norms, and is usually of sufficient

  severity to warrant disapproval from the majority of society. Can be criminal or non-criminal.

  Deviance
• Why do we deviate?

  To broaden options in making decisions, to create conflict (constructive and destructrive)
• What are the four types of deviance?

  Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, and Rebellion
• a necessary feature of any society and it is deeply important for

  building a sense of belonging and connection with others. responsible for producing and maintaining oppression.

  Social Order
• When there is external pressure put upon the individual to achieve a

  specific goal within a given time,it accepts the goal or the social expectations but innovates the way or process to attain that specific means.

  Innovation
• Can be defined as a way in which individuals reject their social values and goals. They don’t conform or deny and deviate from them. They simply reject those goals and don’t consider them as their ultimate goal.

  Ritualism
• Rejects both the cultural goals and the means to obtain it, then find a way to escape it. They simply avoid both the goals and means established by the society.

  Retreatism
• An individual rejecting socially acceptable goals and means while replacing them with socially unacceptable goals and means. It can lead to crime, violence, and in extreme examples, terrorism.

  Rebellion