Match the Term with the Definition

question 31

Short Answer

Match the term with the definition.
1) deviance
2) social order
3) social control
4) negative sanction
5) positive sanction
6) genetic predisposition
7) personality disorder
8) degradation ceremony
9) techniques of neutralization
10) strain theory
11) white collar crime
12) recidivism rate
13) capital punishment
14) serial murder
15) medicalization of deviance
-A) an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild, informal reaction to a formal one
B) Robert Merton's theory based on cultural goals and the institutionalized means to achieve them
C) a term to describe an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual's self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place
D) inborn tendencies to commit deviant acts
E) the percentage of released convicts who are rearrested
F) the killing of several victims in three or more separate events
G) ways of thinking or rationalizing that help people deflect society's rules
H) the violation of rules or norms
I) a group's usual and customary social arrangements on which its members depend and which they base their lives
J) to make deviance a medical matter, a symptom of some underlying illness that needs to be treated by physicians
K) crimes committed by people of respectable and high social status in the course of their occupations
L) another term for the death penalty
M) a group's formal and informal means of enforcing norms
N) reward or positive reaction for following norms ranging from a smile to a prize
O) the view that a personality disturbance of some sort causes an individual to violate social norms

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Definitions:

Statistic

A numerical measurement describing some aspect of a sample of data, often used in inferential statistics.

Sampling Variability

The variation that occurs by chance because a sample is not identical to the population from which it is drawn, affecting the sample estimate.

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