SOC 1500 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vise, Making Money, Price Fixing
15 Apr 2016
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The severity of social response that is elected; Consensus: these crimes are generally agreed to be serious by most members of society. They are characterized by high social agreement, response, and or harm. Mala in se is the latin term which means wrong itself. Conflict: these crimes that have a low social agreement, varied social response and varied social harm. Some people believe these crimes are very serious while some think they"re not serious at all. Cultural relativity: is when something is seen as wrong by one culture but not seen as wrong by others. Historical relativity: when our values change over time. Contextual relativity: is when the context is everything. Gender relativity: depends on the sex, if one is normal for a certain sex and not the other. If a girl fights its different when guys fight the consequences are different. Boys engaging in sex is compared different when girls engaged in sex.
