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Chapter 08 - Deviance and Crime - 0 views

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  • xactly who has the power and authority to define the behavior as being normal or deviant.
  • education
  • religions,
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  • governments,
  • media
  • family
  • Durkheim argued that deviance, especially extreme forms are functional in that they challenge and offend the established norms in the larger collective conscience.
  • deviance reaffirms norms when the deviants are punished;
  • promotes solidarit
  • clear contrasting point of comparison
  • stimulates social change.
  • Extreme deviance does make us consider “normal” behavior on the personal and larger social level.
  • But, what if this distribution was not an indicat8ion of test scores, but rather the frequency of times potential roommates stole food from the private stashes of previous roommates? You’d clearly want a score closer to 0 than 80.
  • National studies indicate that less than 5 percent of the United States population considers itself to be exclusively homosexual.
  • s homosexuality deviant or normal?”
  • “Does that make it more or less common and therefore more or less deviant?” I ask.
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      Think about the relationship of these two ideas: common (so mean) and normal (so deviant).
  • actor violates group norms but complies with the law, it is deviance.
  • how can something be deviant and normal at the same time?”
  • We rarely have total agreement on what’s normal
  • ethnocentrism tends to burn cross-cultural bridges
  • across time; across cultures, and from group to group.
  • shifting values.
  • Deviance varies between cultures because values vary between cultures.
  • ontributed to higher or lower levels of trust over time.
  • The point of this story is that in most social groups a beat down would be considered deviant. In a gang it’s very much normal. Yet, in this situation, not beating him down was deviant within his gang, yet a wise choice.
  • Absolutist Perspective claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places.
  • Normative Perspective claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time
  • Reactive Perspective claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws
  • Stigma
  • deviance is a violation of a norm
  • Conformity
  • “random act of senseless kindness”
  • legal and normal
  • complies with group norms yet breaks the law, it’s called crime.
  • normal crime.
  • As mentioned, deviants and criminals make us reassess our values and make new rules and laws
  • crime is often found in every society
  • iolates norms and breaks the law, then it’s Deviant and Criminal behavior
  • Power Elite are the political, corporate, and military leaders of a society are uniquely positioned to commit Elite Crimes, or crimes of insider nature that typically are difficult to punish and have broad social consequences upon the masses.
  • issues of power and powerlessness. It’s about who has the power and how they attempt to force their values and rules upon those who don’t have it.
  • remember that Anomie is a state of social normlessness which occurs when our lives or society has vague norms)
  • disproportionately high level of non-whites who ended up among the 2006 1,570,861 incarcerated members of society
  • Labeling Theory claims
  • majority of US prisoners have been in prison before (perhaps 60-80%
  • Phrenology is an outdated scientific approach of studying the shape and characteristics of the skull.
  • White-Collar Crimes are crimes committed by persons of respectable and high social status committed in the course of their occupations.
  • Street Crimes are crimes
  • Organized Crime
  • Hate Crimes
  • Norm is a set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status.
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      Do you agree with this definition?  Can you see what the consequences of this might be?
  • Look at the diagram below.
  • Is a mean of 80 good or desirable?
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      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      Think of 80, or the mean, as the norm.  When you think of it this way, is it desirable?
  • That depends on what these scores represent.
  • Values also vary between groups
  • An absolutists would probably fall among the 1 in 4 who feel that abortion is always wrong, because it is an unacceptable act. A normative individual would consider the circumstances (rape, incest, diagnoses, or health of mother) while a reactive would consider the legality of abortion.
  • In every society when deviance is considered it is most often controlled.
  • Control is easier if attachments, commitment, involvement, and beliefs are stronger.
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      The absence of this is called 'anomie' and signals the breakdown of a society. Sociologists would call this the loss of social cohesion.  
  • Attachments
  • Commitment
  • Involvement
  • Belief
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      Think of these four factors that favor control of deviance in terms of your school.  How does each one of these manifest itself in school life?  Are they effective in reducing deviant behaviour?
  • Negative Sanctions are punishments or negative reactions toward deviance. Positive Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior
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      Daryl Bambic on 04 Dec 13
       
      What type of sanctions, both positive and negative, do we see at WIC?
  • Table 5. Robert Merton’s Five Goal—Means Gap Coping Strategies*** 1.
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      Don't worry about this section.
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Social theories - Intro to Sociology - 0 views

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  • Conflict Theory claims that society is in a state of perpetual conflict and competition for limited resources.
  • those who have perpetually try to increase their wealth at the expense and suffering of those who have not.
  • power struggle
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  • wealthy elite
  • common person of common means
  • Power is the ability to get what one wants even in the presence of opposition. Authority is the institutionalized legitimate power.
  • society is in a state of balance and kept that way through the function of society's component parts.
  • biological and ecological concepts
  • Dysfunctions
  • threaten social stability
  • Manifest Functions are the apparent
  • Latent Functions are the less apparent, unintended, and often unrecognized functions in social institutions and processes.
  • unctionalism is more positive and optimistic
  • Equilibrium is the state of balance maintained by social processes that help society adjust and compensate for forces that might tilt it onto a path of destruction.
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» The Sociological Imagination Revisited The Sociological Imagination - 0 views

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  • the popular mood was suffused with a strange sense of unease. It was a condition in which people were told by their papers, their screens, their politicians and ideologues that they lived in a state of freedom.
  • An American could be whoever they wanted to be and follow their own inclinations and desires. But the scope of this freedom was very much limited to every American’s private life
  • that all wasn’t safe and well
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  • What the sociological imagination does is provide a way of thinking through and understanding social life, of how the inner lives of each of us as individuals are conditioned by social forces,
  • the imagination is also a ‘terrible’ realisation as it shows that our fate is largely something that is done to us, regardless of our choices.
  • rivate sphere
  • hat are its components?
  • How is society structured
  • What social groups hold sway
  • ow are they interrelated and mutually conditioning? How do they contribute to social persistence and social change? How does one society differ from another?
  • personal troubles
  • public issue
  • higher social scale
  • Mills’ thesis that unease and anxiety underlined the American (modern) condition
  • nsecurity, fatalism, fear for the future is a mass experience
  • social phenomenon
  • He argues that every age has a common intellectual denominato
  • zeitgeist
  • Consciously and unconsciously, social policy, sociology, emerging nationalisms, encouraged the view that relations between human beings were essentially an extension of the evolutionary struggle each and every species wages in the natural worl
  • Economists are forced to acknowledge the social dimension outside of their equations to explain the crash of 2008
  • sociological imagination is the habit of mind par excellence sociology as a discipline is stuck on the doldrums
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Is dependence on technology the real threat? - Casting Out Nines - The Chronicle of Hig... - 0 views

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  • teaching of fractions:
  • closer to what people needed back before there were calculators.
  • People float the “dependence on technology” counter-argument
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  • all that bad if students became dependent on a technology that’s cheap and easy to come by?
  • eyeglasses, running water,
  • cars, kitchen appliances?
  • That threat of becoming dependent upon technology to do mathematics is only a real concern, for me at least, under one of two conditions.
  • expensive
  • ard to access for some learners
  • other condition
  • definition of “mathematics”
  • so restricte
  • only those tasks that can be easily farmed out to technolog
  • ny discipline that can be replaced by software probably ought to be.
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Chapter 01 - History and Introduction - 0 views

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  • Auguste Comte (born 1798
  • ociety's knowledge passed through 3 stages
  • cience-based). Positivism is the objective and value-free observation, comparison, and experimentation applied to scientific inquiry
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  • Societies had change in unprecedented ways and had formed a new collective of social complexities
  • Industrial Revolution
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    Definition of culture: a group of people enacting a story
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thinking visible Bloom headlines

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    Use Padlet to share the headlines the groups generate
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Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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  • This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
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      Do you agree with this premise?  Do you agree that the previous sentence (the argument) is based on this premise?
  • The Dumbest Generation
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  • incessant communication
  • does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development
  • solipsistic,
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      Solipsism: means that the only thing we can really know and be sure about is the self.  All other knowledge is suspect.
  • "being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,
  • ubiquitous
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      meaning is found everywhere
  • requires literacy
  • Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.
  • we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
    • Daryl Bambic
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      What does the author want the 21st century learner to be able to do?
  • Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      What do you think the author means by technical fixes?
  • Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with his definition of critical thinking?  What else might be added to it?
  • Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
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      Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
       
      Do you agree with these two paragraphs that connect empirical reasoning with abandoning the supernatural?
  • education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.
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      What he means is that education is more of a system for making sure the rich stay rich than for actually educating people.  The distinctions between classes is more apparent in American society than in Canadian society.
  • real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems
  • that all knowledge is social.
  • When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles
  • multiple frames of reference
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      means...different ways of looking at a problem
  • where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.
  • knowledge creation
  • Wikipedi
  • we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar
  • answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.
  • Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth
  • f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
  • "personal learning network,"
  • Even thoug
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      I think he has some assumptions about philosophers!
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    the 21st century mind: how are teachers educating for this?
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