Deviance Part 1

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  1. deviance
    a state or condition markedly different from the norm
    Deviance is the recognized violation of cultural norm
  2. social control
    control exerted (actively or passively) by group action
    All of us are subjects to social control, attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior.
  3. acculturate
    assimilate culturally
  4. shun
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
    Able-bodied people often view people with disabilities as an out-group, just s rich people may shun the poor for falling short of their standards.
  5. criminality
    the state of being a criminal
    Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck confirmed that conclusion but cautioned that powerful build does not necessarily cuse or ever predict criminality.
  6. ritualism
    exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
    The inability o reach a cultural goal may also prompt another tyoe of deviance that Merton calls ritualism.
  7. retreatant
    a participant in a religious retreat
    like retreatists, rebels sunc as radical survivalists reject both cultural definition of success and conventional means of achieving it but go one step further by forming a counteculture supporting alternitives to the existing social order.
Created on 九月 20, 2010 (updated 九月 20, 2010)

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