Lernmaterialien für Introduction to Sociology an der University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

hypothesis that we learn to be deviant through our associations with deviant peers

a branch of science that uses biological and evolutionary explanations for social behavior

behavior, trait, belief, or other characteristic that violates a norm and causes a negative reaction

individuals who renounce society's approved goals and means entirely and live outside conventional norms altogether 

idea that deviance is a consequence of external judgments/labels that modify the individual's self-concept and change the way others respond to the labeled person

redefining the stigma associated with a deviant label as a positive phenomenon 

the process of learning and internalizing the values, beliefs, and norms of our social group, by which we become functioning members of society

leadership that is task or goal oriented

the ongoing discussion of the respective roles of genetics and socialization in determining individual behaviors and traits

individuals who have given up hope of achieving society's approved goals but still operate according to society's approved mean

consists of basic inborn drives that are the source of instinctive psychic energy 

first stage in Mead's theory of the development of self wherein children mimic or imitate others