TERM 1
If you decided that you could never get into a
good school and so could never get a good
job, you might decide to sell crack cocaine
instead as a way to make a living. According
to Robert Merton, what sort of deviant would
you be?
DEFINITION 1
an innovator
TERM 2
What aspects of stigma are symbolic
interactionists interested in?
DEFINITION 2
how people manage their stigmatized identities on an
everyday basis
TERM 3
Shortly after the September 11 attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there
were a number of attacks on Arab Americans
(and people who were mistakenly identified
as Arab Americans), as their identity had
become stigmatized. What sort of stigma was
this?
DEFINITION 3
a tribal stigma
TERM 4
Which of the following is a strategy to
negotiate everyday interactions with a
stigmatized identity?
DEFINITION 4
passing
TERM 5
What is NOT considered a violent crime by the
Uniform Crime Report?
DEFINITION 5
burglary
