Chapter+07

Crime: The violation of a society's formall enacted criminal law. ex.) Phil thinks Luke lost his bike and thinks he found it and brings it home to show him a lesson, but when he brings the bike back home he realizes it is there and he also just realized he just stole a young kid's bike.

Labeling Theory: The idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions. ex.) Cameron can be labeled as a clown dad because he wanted to be his infamous fizbo the clown for his daughter, Lily's party, and every other dad at the party was not a clown, So Cameron was strainging away from the norm and people thought he was the crazy clown dad like, Mitchel for instance.

Stigma: A powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity. ex.) It was around Halloween and Mitchel was new at his new work place, and some guys from his work told him that they dress up for halloween at there work. So Mitchel thought that would be fun so he should up at work the next morning dressed up as spider-man, but before he got out of his car to his realization know one else was dressed up so he had to put his wok clothes over his costum. when he goes into work he hears one of his other coworkers talking about the to guys who dress up every year and how immature they look, mitchel agrees to fit in and not have them realize what he is wearing under his suit. later that day Mitchel finally had time to change out of it in a bathroom stall but his suit clothes got wet. So he had to sneak out of his work to his car to new ones all the while wearing his spiderman outfit. Then some people see him through the windo and then it gets everyones attention. Then Mitchels lable changes from one of the normal guys to a wierd one and everyones self concept changes about him.

Hate crime: A criminal act against a person or a person's property by an offender motivated by racial or other bias. ex.) It tends to happen to Manny a lot, because he will try to have a girlfriend and either other boys will make fun of him, or the girls aren't interested in him.

Social control: Attempts by society to regulate people's thoughts and behavior. ex.) In one episode Mitchell dresses up like Spider-Man because he was told by some co-workers to dress up for Halloween. Society at his job tried to control his thoughts into dressing up for a holiday.

Deviance: The recognized violation of cultural norms. ex.) For Gloria her norm is being buried in the ground when you die because she believes that God will then find you. To her Jay is violating her norm for being buried in a cript, because God will not be able to find you and your body will not go into the ground.