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Week One Chapters 1-5
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1Social scientists have survey research, experimental design, historical methods, official statistics, and field research at their disposal.
- ATrue
- BFalse
2In order to understand what goes on in deviant worlds, which two are associated according to the text.
- AHow things happen and what they mean.
- BWhen things happen and what they mean.
3The absolutist perspective is considered a simple task, implying that widespread agreement exists about what is deviant and what is not.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4What could be considered absolutist deviance?
- AAdultery and divorce.
- BStealing and lying.
5Social constructions define meanings, notions, or connotations that are assigned to objects and events in the environment and to people’s notions of their relationships to and interactions with these objects.
- ATrue
- BFalse
6The more the relativists examined norms in different places, they considered this less universal.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Relativists agree that deviance is in the eye of the beholder rather than the act itself.
- ATrue
- BFalse
8Killing someone in self defense can be considered non-deviant.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9What is the social power of perspective?
- AExpands on the relativist theory of deviance but says that people in power get to decide what is deviant and what is not.
- B Deviance is not created by social norms but intrinsic to the human race
10What are the three types of norms?
- AFolkways, mores, and laws.
- BLaws, traditions, and customs.
11Folkways are associated with customs, traditions, and etiquette.
- ATrue
- BFalse
12Mores are based on broad societal morals.
- ATrue
- BFalse
13Are laws the weakest norms?
- ATrue
- BFalse
14People can be labeled as the ABC's of deviance. ABC stands for:
- AAttributes, basis, and capital.
- BAttitudes, behaviors, and conditions.
15What are the 3 categories of the S's?
- ASin, sick and selected.
- BSorrow, sacrifices, sayings.
16Deviant behavior can be talked about in social units called?
- ACommunities
- BOrganizations
17Boundaries are a fixed property of any community.
- ATrue
- BFalse
18The four analytic types of deviance are negative deviance, rate busting, deviance admiration, and positive deviance.
- ATrue
- BFalse
19Co0hen defined deviance as "behavior that violates normative rules."
- ATrue
- BFalse
20Negative evaluations and under conformity or nonconformity would be considered negative deviance.
- ATrue
- BFalse
21Positive evaluations and over conformity would be considered positive deviance.
- ATrue
- BFalse
22Norm is defined as?
- AA belief shared to some extent by members of a social unit as to what conduct ought to be in particular situations.
- BConduct that is considered out of control.
23Deviance is the repeated or serious violation of society's expectations.
- ATrue
- BFalse
24Theft burglary and rape are considered negative deviances?
- ATrue
- BFalse
25Rate busting is considered under conformity?
- ATrue
- BFalse
26An Integrated Typology of Deviance Applied to Ten Middle-Class Norms ar:
1. Loyalty
2. Privacy
3. Prudence
4. Conventionality
5. Responsibility
6. Participation
7. Moderation
8. Honesty
9. Peacefulness
10. Courtesy- ATrue
- BFalse
27Rate Busting:
- Group Loyalty/Fanatism
- Privacy/Seclusion
- Prudence/Puritanism
- Conventionality/Provincialism
- Responsibility/Priggishness
- Participation/Dependence
- Moderation/Asceticism
- Honesty/Tactlessness
- Peacefulness/Wimpishness
- Courtesy/Obsequiousness- ATrue
- BFalse
28Deviance Admiration:
- Group Loyalty/Rebellion
- Privacy/Investigation
- Prudence/Exhibitionism
- Conventionality/Faddishness
- Responsibility/Adventurousness
- Participation/Independence
- Moderation/Rougishness
- Honesty/Tactlessness
- Peacefulness/Revelry
- Courtesy/Irreverence- ATrue
- BFalse
29Positive Deviance:
- Group Loyalty/Altruism
- Privacy/Circumspection
- Prudence/Discretion
- Conventionality/Properness
- Responsibility/Hyperresponsibility
- Participation/Cooperation
- Moderation/Temperence
- Honesty/Forthrightness
- Peacefulness/Pacifism
- Courtesy/Gentility- ATrue
- BFalse
30Three Variations in why People respond to Deviance Differently
- A 1. Variation over time
2. Who commits it/who feels harmed by it
3. Variations in consequences - B1. Gather marginal people into groups
2. Teach them the skills and attitudes of a deviant career
3. Reinforce alienation from society
- A 1. Variation over time
31Moral order is a central dimension of culture?
- ATrue
- BFalse
32 Which theory helps to examine the legal order?
- ASocial reality of crime?
- BSocial reality of law?
33The theory of the social reality of crime is formulated by? Check all that apply.
- AOfficial definition of crime.
- BFormulating the definition of crime.
- CApplying the definition of crime.
- DHow behavior patterns develop in relations to definitions of crime.
- EConstructing an Ideology of crime.
- FConstructing the social reality of crime.
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