SOC 240: Social Deviance
Midterm exam review sheet
Professor Hala
Fall 2011
The exam will consist of two sections:
I.
Key Terms. You will choose 7 out of 10 terms (from the list below) and define and provide an
example of each in a paragraph (or two). Each item will be worth 8 points, for a total of 56 points.
The more thorough the response, the better.
II.
Short responses. You choose 4 out of 6 questions and answer them in one or more paragraphs.
Each item will be worth 11 points, for a total of 44 points. Questions will be based on the three
highlighted items below. Responses should focus on the course item referenced in the question, but
they may also draw on other course material (required or recommended, text, audio or video).
Responses will be credited for all knowledgeable references to relevant course material.
III.
Extra credit. There will be an extra credit question on assigned material discussed in class (text,
video, or audio) [5 pts; extra credit pts will be added, up to a total score of 100]
Pt. I will cover the following key terms (IN BOLD ITALICS). Pt. II will cover the highlighted items.
Ch. 3: Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories (H. Becker)
MORAL ENTREPRENEUR / RULE CREATOR / RULE ENFORCER / EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT / CRIMINALIZATION /
SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT
Ch. 7: The Normal and the Pathological (E. Durkheim)
NORMALITY OF CRIME
Ch. 5: The Production of Deviance in Capitalist Society (S. Spitzer)
SUPERSTRUCTURE /PROBLEM POPULATIONS / SOCIAL JUNK / SOCIAL DYNAMITE
Ch. 8: On the Sociology of Deviance (K. Erikson)
COMMUNITIES / COMMITMENT CEREMONIES / BOUNDARY DRAWING / DIFFERENTIATION
Ch. 4: Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Shasta County Smoking Ban (J. Tuggle & M. Holmes)
STATUS POLITICS / STATUS QUO DEFENDERS
Ch. 10: Differential Punishing of African Americans and Whites Who Possess Drugs: A Just Policy or a
Continuation of the Past? (R. Alexander & J. Gyamerah)
DIFFERENTIAL PUNISHING / FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT
* Audio (in-class): "Crown Heights: Guns and Crime," (interview w/NY State Senator, Eric Adams) Brian
Lehrer Show, 9/8/2011 (15 min)
Ch. 13: Social Structure and Anomie (R. Merton) pp. 139-149.
MODES OF ADAPTATION / ANOMIE / SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
*Video: England Riots – Map and Timeline, "How the Unrest Spread," BBC News.
*Video: “Dubstep Rebellion - The British Banlieue Comes to Millbank,” (P. Mason) BBC Newsnight,
12/9/1010 (4:49).
Ch. 17: Career Deviance (H. Becker)
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM / LABELING THEORY / MASTER STATUS
Ch. 21: Information Control and Personal Identity: The Discredited and the Discreditable (E. Goffman)
VIRTUAL SOCIAL IDENTITY / STIGMA / PRESTIGE SYMBOL / STIGMA SYMBOL / DISCREDITED / DISCREDITABLE /
DISIDENTIFIER
* Audio (in class) "Right to Remain Silent," This American Life, Chicago Public Media, 10/20/2010
"Being Middle Eastern American: Identity Negotiation in the Context of the War on Terror," (A.
Marvasti) Symbolic Interaction 28 (4): 525–547.
HUMOROUS ACCOUNTING / EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTING / DEFIANT ACCOUNTING / COWERING / PASSING
"Trafficking, Migration, and the Law: Protecting Innocents, Punishing Immigrants," (W. Chapkis)
Gender & Society 17 (6): 923-937.
MORAL PANIC / TRAFFICKING VICTIM PROTECTION ACT (TVPA) OF 2000
Ch. 28: The Epistemological Challenge of the Early Attack on "Rate Construction" (T. Duster)
EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS / CHICAGO SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY
Gang Leader for a Day (S.Venkatesh)