SOC 220 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Already Passed
What is deviance? - Answers Behavior, thoughts, or attitudes to which some people react
negatively or would react negatively if they knew about it.
Behavior: how you act
Thoughts: the way you think
Attitudes: what you think about something
Primary Deviance - Answers Primary:
-simple abnormal behavior that violates social norms or rules but not severe
-simple violation
-everyone has primary deviance in them
ex) speeding, stop sign, being drunk in public
Secondary Deviance - Answers Secondary deviance: self stigmatize yourself as deviant
Minute you become labeled as deviant person you go to secondary deviance
Deviant first and person later
(weird first and person later)
Extreme Deviance - Answers These behaviors are so far removed from the norm
-Reactions are so severe (in prison, not be alive, not have equal rights)
-How strong people react to a behavior is dictated by how the rest of the culture considers that
behavior deviant and how deviant it is
(stronger reaction the more likely people are going to agree);
Ex) Syria--don't let them come to America because they are terrorists
Social power and deviance - Answers Social power has very strong influence on defining what
deviance is:
-They have platform
-powerful get more street cred,
-ability to regulate laws (gay marriage, abortion);
-times changes and laws change with them (sometimes move forward sometimes move
,backwards)
What is the difference between primary and secondary deviance? - Answers -Primary: simple
violation of a social norm or rule, but not severe enough to be labeled or identified as deviant
-secondary: when you are labeled or identified as deviant you go to secondary stage
extreme: so far removed from the norm that they are not only labeled as deviant but have
violated social norms so severley that can cause them to go to jail, get arrested, not have equal
rights, or die
What is the difference between primary and secondary deviance and extreme deviance -
Answers Primary: Not labeled as deviant and Secondary: labeled as deviant but
extreme: so far removed from the norm that they are not only labeled as deviant but they violate
social norms so severly that can end up going to jail, get arrested, not have equal rights, or die
Deviance continuum - Answers Three things that help you move along this continuum from
primary to secondary
1. Commitment
2. Identification
3. Progression
1. commitment - Answers 1. Commitment
How committed you are to this lifestyle of deviance or behavioral pattern
2. Identification - Answers 2. Identification
Do you identify with this group of behavior, do you identify self as member of group and do you
have friends that do
What extent do you identify with a group and yourself that is deviant
3. Progression - Answers 3. Progression
sometimes you need certain skills to fit into a group that is considered deviant
,How many skills do you have
Example of movement in deviance continuum - Answers Example:
drug use (weed)-->
Drug dealing (just to friends not as bad)-->
when you start branching out -->drug phone -->and identifying as a drug dealer--> you move
along the continuum
3 Perspectives on deviance - Answers 1. absolutists
2. statistical
3. relativism
1. absolutists - Answers States that some acts (behaviors, attitudes, thoughts) will be deviant
anywhere at any time that is absolute
2. statistical - Answers -What most people do is not deviant
-Any behavior that differs from the average experience is deviant
-Rare or infrequent behavior is deviant
3. relativism - Answers -Deviance is in the eye of the beholder
-We all have our own opinions and perspectives
-Things change over time always
3 things to know about perspectives of deviance - Answers What is considered deviant and
wrong:
1. Relevant to time period -what time period are we talking about
2. Relevant to the social context -difference social situations require different behaviors
3. Deviance has a hierarchical - some behaviors are more deviant than others
-Ruling elite: if they have a lot of social power they will dictate what is most deviant
deviance and social construction - Answers Social construction is based on our beliefs and
actions
, -we create deviance
Deviance and attitudes are socially constructed
-Very social act
-Various norms, your past, what is going on now, and what will happen in the future, are all
constructed by your society
-The beliefs that we have of what is right and wrong are a social construction; our attitudes and
actions are socially constructed
We all create deviance in different ways:
Ways we create deviance/help socially construct deviant/not deviant:
-Protests
-Voting: one of the most formal ways of deviant construction
-Cant have a society without having deviance
Stigma: - Answers Def—mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or
person
Goffman's 3 Sources/Types of Stigma
1. Physical characteristics
2. Blemishes of individual character
3. Tribal stigma
-Discredited vs. Discreditable
-Being stigmatized by certain person
Goffmans 3 sources/types of stigma - Answers 1. physical
2. blemishes of individual character
What is deviance? - Answers Behavior, thoughts, or attitudes to which some people react
negatively or would react negatively if they knew about it.
Behavior: how you act
Thoughts: the way you think
Attitudes: what you think about something
Primary Deviance - Answers Primary:
-simple abnormal behavior that violates social norms or rules but not severe
-simple violation
-everyone has primary deviance in them
ex) speeding, stop sign, being drunk in public
Secondary Deviance - Answers Secondary deviance: self stigmatize yourself as deviant
Minute you become labeled as deviant person you go to secondary deviance
Deviant first and person later
(weird first and person later)
Extreme Deviance - Answers These behaviors are so far removed from the norm
-Reactions are so severe (in prison, not be alive, not have equal rights)
-How strong people react to a behavior is dictated by how the rest of the culture considers that
behavior deviant and how deviant it is
(stronger reaction the more likely people are going to agree);
Ex) Syria--don't let them come to America because they are terrorists
Social power and deviance - Answers Social power has very strong influence on defining what
deviance is:
-They have platform
-powerful get more street cred,
-ability to regulate laws (gay marriage, abortion);
-times changes and laws change with them (sometimes move forward sometimes move
,backwards)
What is the difference between primary and secondary deviance? - Answers -Primary: simple
violation of a social norm or rule, but not severe enough to be labeled or identified as deviant
-secondary: when you are labeled or identified as deviant you go to secondary stage
extreme: so far removed from the norm that they are not only labeled as deviant but have
violated social norms so severley that can cause them to go to jail, get arrested, not have equal
rights, or die
What is the difference between primary and secondary deviance and extreme deviance -
Answers Primary: Not labeled as deviant and Secondary: labeled as deviant but
extreme: so far removed from the norm that they are not only labeled as deviant but they violate
social norms so severly that can end up going to jail, get arrested, not have equal rights, or die
Deviance continuum - Answers Three things that help you move along this continuum from
primary to secondary
1. Commitment
2. Identification
3. Progression
1. commitment - Answers 1. Commitment
How committed you are to this lifestyle of deviance or behavioral pattern
2. Identification - Answers 2. Identification
Do you identify with this group of behavior, do you identify self as member of group and do you
have friends that do
What extent do you identify with a group and yourself that is deviant
3. Progression - Answers 3. Progression
sometimes you need certain skills to fit into a group that is considered deviant
,How many skills do you have
Example of movement in deviance continuum - Answers Example:
drug use (weed)-->
Drug dealing (just to friends not as bad)-->
when you start branching out -->drug phone -->and identifying as a drug dealer--> you move
along the continuum
3 Perspectives on deviance - Answers 1. absolutists
2. statistical
3. relativism
1. absolutists - Answers States that some acts (behaviors, attitudes, thoughts) will be deviant
anywhere at any time that is absolute
2. statistical - Answers -What most people do is not deviant
-Any behavior that differs from the average experience is deviant
-Rare or infrequent behavior is deviant
3. relativism - Answers -Deviance is in the eye of the beholder
-We all have our own opinions and perspectives
-Things change over time always
3 things to know about perspectives of deviance - Answers What is considered deviant and
wrong:
1. Relevant to time period -what time period are we talking about
2. Relevant to the social context -difference social situations require different behaviors
3. Deviance has a hierarchical - some behaviors are more deviant than others
-Ruling elite: if they have a lot of social power they will dictate what is most deviant
deviance and social construction - Answers Social construction is based on our beliefs and
actions
, -we create deviance
Deviance and attitudes are socially constructed
-Very social act
-Various norms, your past, what is going on now, and what will happen in the future, are all
constructed by your society
-The beliefs that we have of what is right and wrong are a social construction; our attitudes and
actions are socially constructed
We all create deviance in different ways:
Ways we create deviance/help socially construct deviant/not deviant:
-Protests
-Voting: one of the most formal ways of deviant construction
-Cant have a society without having deviance
Stigma: - Answers Def—mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or
person
Goffman's 3 Sources/Types of Stigma
1. Physical characteristics
2. Blemishes of individual character
3. Tribal stigma
-Discredited vs. Discreditable
-Being stigmatized by certain person
Goffmans 3 sources/types of stigma - Answers 1. physical
2. blemishes of individual character
