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Week One Chapters 1-5

Question 1 of 33

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Social scientists have survey research, experimental design, historical methods, official statistics, and field research at their disposal.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 2 of 33

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In order to understand what goes on in deviant worlds, which two are associated according to the text.

Select one of the following:

  • How things happen and what they mean.

  • When things happen and what they mean.

Explanation

Question 3 of 33

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The absolutist perspective is considered a simple task, implying that widespread agreement exists about what is deviant and what is not.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 4 of 33

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What could be considered absolutist deviance?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Adultery and divorce.

  • Stealing and lying.

Explanation

Question 5 of 33

1

Social 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.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 6 of 33

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The more the relativists examined norms in different places, they considered this less universal.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 33

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Relativists agree that deviance is in the eye of the beholder rather than the act itself.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 8 of 33

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Killing someone in self defense can be considered non-deviant.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 9 of 33

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What is the social power of perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Expands on the relativist theory of deviance but says that people in power get to decide what is deviant and what is not.

  • Deviance is not created by social norms but intrinsic to the human race

Explanation

Question 10 of 33

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What are the three types of norms?

Select one of the following:

  • Folkways, mores, and laws.

  • Laws, traditions, and customs.

Explanation

Question 11 of 33

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Folkways are associated with customs, traditions, and etiquette.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 12 of 33

1

Mores are based on broad societal morals.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 13 of 33

1

Are laws the weakest norms?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 33

1

People can be labeled as the ABC's of deviance. ABC stands for:

Select one of the following:

  • Attributes, basis, and capital.

  • Attitudes, behaviors, and conditions.

Explanation

Question 15 of 33

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What are the 3 categories of the S's?

Select one of the following:

  • Sin, sick and selected.

  • Sorrow, sacrifices, sayings.

Explanation

Question 16 of 33

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Deviant behavior can be talked about in social units called?

Select one of the following:

  • Communities

  • Organizations

Explanation

Question 17 of 33

1

Boundaries are a fixed property of any community.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 18 of 33

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The four analytic types of deviance are negative deviance, rate busting, deviance admiration, and positive deviance.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 33

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Co0hen defined deviance as "behavior that violates normative rules."

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 20 of 33

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Negative evaluations and under conformity or nonconformity would be considered negative deviance.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 21 of 33

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Positive evaluations and over conformity would be considered positive deviance.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 22 of 33

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Norm is defined as?

Select one of the following:

  • A belief shared to some extent by members of a social unit as to what conduct ought to be in particular situations.

  • Conduct that is considered out of control.

Explanation

Question 23 of 33

1

Deviance is the repeated or serious violation of society's expectations.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 24 of 33

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Theft burglary and rape are considered negative deviances?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 25 of 33

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Rate busting is considered under conformity?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 26 of 33

1

An 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

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 27 of 33

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Rate Busting:

- Group Loyalty/Fanatism

- Privacy/Seclusion

- Prudence/Puritanism

- Conventionality/Provincialism

- Responsibility/Priggishness

- Participation/Dependence

- Moderation/Asceticism

- Honesty/Tactlessness

- Peacefulness/Wimpishness

- Courtesy/Obsequiousness

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 28 of 33

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Deviance Admiration:

- Group Loyalty/Rebellion

- Privacy/Investigation

- Prudence/Exhibitionism

- Conventionality/Faddishness

- Responsibility/Adventurousness

- Participation/Independence

- Moderation/Rougishness

- Honesty/Tactlessness

- Peacefulness/Revelry

- Courtesy/Irreverence

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 29 of 33

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Positive Deviance:

- Group Loyalty/Altruism

- Privacy/Circumspection

- Prudence/Discretion

- Conventionality/Properness

- Responsibility/Hyperresponsibility

- Participation/Cooperation

- Moderation/Temperence

- Honesty/Forthrightness

- Peacefulness/Pacifism

- Courtesy/Gentility

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 30 of 33

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Three Variations in why People respond to Deviance Differently

Select one of the following:

  • 1. Variation over time

    2. Who commits it/who feels harmed by it

    3. Variations in consequences

  • 1. Gather marginal people into groups

    2. Teach them the skills and attitudes of a deviant career

    3. Reinforce alienation from society

Explanation

Question 31 of 33

1

Moral order is a central dimension of culture?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 32 of 33

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Which theory helps to examine the legal order?

Select one of the following:

  • Social reality of crime?

  • Social reality of law?

Explanation

Question 33 of 33

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The theory of the social reality of crime is formulated by? Check all that apply.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Official definition of crime.

  • Formulating the definition of crime.

  • Applying the definition of crime.

  • How behavior patterns develop in relations to definitions of crime.

  • Constructing an Ideology of crime.

  • Constructing the social reality of crime.

Explanation

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