Social order

 Social order

a group's customary social arrangements

Stigma

 Stigma

Erving Goffman used term to refer to characteristics that discredit people. These include violations of norms of appearances(huge nose, facial birthmark) and norms of ability(blindness, deafness). Also includes involuntary membership, such as victim of AIDS. The stigma can become a persons master status.

Profiteering

 Profiteering

selling goods that are difficult to come by for a profit

Crime

 Crime

specific form of deviance, the violation of rules that have been written into law

Relativity of deviance

 Relativity of deviance

major point made by symbolic interactionists, because different groups have different norms, What is deviant to some is not deviant to others.

Deviance

 Deviance

any violation of norms, whether the infraction is minor as driving over the speed limit or as serious as murder. Howard Becker described it; it is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant. , Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society. Any act to which people respond negatively. Deviance undermines predictability, the foundation of social life. Deviance refers to all violations of social rules, regardless of their seriousness.

Norms

 Norms

what is expected of people; the expectations or rules intended to guide people's behavior. 
Norms make social life possible by making behavior predictable. Without norms, we would have social chaos. Norms lay out the basic guidelines for how we should play our roles and interact with others