Sociology

Inner and outer controls work against tendencies to deviate

Crimes committed by executives to benefit the corporation

Violation of norms written into law

Edwin Sutherland

people who associate with some groups learn "excess of definitions" of deviance

increases likelihood that they will become deviant

Opportunities for crime that are woven into the texture of life

Approved ways of reaching cultural goals

Labels given to people affect their own and others' perceptions of them, thus channeling behavior into deviance or conformity

Making deviance a medical matter

A symptom of an underlying illness to be treated by a physician

An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm

The practice of the police, in the normal course of their duties, to either ticket someone for an offense or overlook the matter

The proportion of released convicts who are rearrested

The killing of several victims in three or more separate events

A group's formal and informal means of enforcing its norms

A group's usual and customary social arrangements

Robert Merton

The engendered stain that forms when society socializes large numbers of people to a desired cultural goal, but withholds some of the means to achieve it.

One adaptation to the strain is crime

Deviance is functional for society

Investigated world religions and identified elements common to all.

Sacred from the profane

Enforced separation of racial-ethnic groups

Common identity based on one's position in means of production (Marx)

One nation takes over another nation, usually for exploiting labor and natural resources

Assumption that the values and behaviors of the poor make them fundamentally different from other people

Marrying within one's group

Medieval Europe - estates:  nobility, clergy, commoners

Workers identifying with the interests of capitalists (Marx)

Economic and political dominance of the Least Industrialized Nations by the Most Industrialized Nations

The exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production (Marx)

Sociologist who wrote about slavery in the U.S.

People become detached from the norms that guide behavior

The belief that due to limitless possibilities, anyone can get ahead if he or she tries hard enough

The change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next

The official measure of poverty

Theodor Adorno

People who are prejudice and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity and respect for authority

The policy of exploiting minority groups for economic gain.

Common elements in the culture of Native Americans in order to develop a cross-tribal self-identity

The diffusion of power among many interest groups that prevent any single group from gaining control of the government

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

The view that satisfaction during old age is related to a person's amount and quality of activity

The number of workers required to support each dependent person (those 65+ and under 15)

Relative value place on men and women's ages

Authority more or less equally divided between people of a group

Marrying outside of one's group

The tendency of people with similar characteristics to marry one another

Education opens and closes doors of opportunity. 

Another term for social placement function of society.

The belief that all objects in the world have spirits.

• A religious group so integrated into the dominant culture that it is difficult to tell where one begins and the other leaves off.
• State religion