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Labelling Theory & Action Theories SCLY4

Questão 1 de 50

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Labelling theorists believe that 'deviance' is a social construction - Becker (1963)
E.G. killing an individual is not labelled as deviant if it is committed by a soldier at war

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 2 de 50

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What is differential enforcement?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Differential Enforcement refers to the social control agencies (police, courts etc.) tendency to label particular/certain groups as criminal.

  • Differential Enforcement refers to the idea of individuals being treated the same way, regardless of elements of their identity.

Explicação

Questão 3 de 50

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When did Piliavin and Briar coin this term - and what did they find?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 1964 - found that the social control agencies (e.g. police, courts) tended to arrest individuals based on pre-existing stereotypes surrounding race, ethnicity, gender, class, manner, time and place.

  • 1963 - all people are treated the same, regardless of elements of their identity.

Explicação

Questão 4 de 50

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What perspective does Labelling Theory derive from? and why/how is this?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Interactionism - because they're interested in the INTERACTIONS between the law enforcement agencies and the suspects.

  • Functionalism

Explicação

Questão 5 de 50

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What does Interactionism focus on?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Micro-level, face to face interactions and negotiations, that seek to understanding the meaning behind individual's actions - and how these meanings have been created.

  • Macro level, structural theory that makes assumptions about the causes of the individual's actions.

Explicação

Questão 6 de 50

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What is a typification? And who came up with the concept?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Cicourel (1976) - and it is another word for a 'stereotype'

  • Becker (1963) - and it is another word for a 'stereotype'

Explicação

Questão 7 de 50

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Who, in accordance to Cicourel (1976) are more likely to be stopped, arrested and search as a result of this typification?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Working Class & Ethnic Minority Juveniles - are more likely to be arrested. Once arrested, those from broken homes were more likely to be charged.

  • Middle Class Juveniles - with parents/significant others able to negotiate on their behalf. As a result of this they are more likely to be charged.

Explicação

Questão 8 de 50

1

Marxists criticise the theory of Typification by Cicourel (1976) as it fails to explain where these stereotypes had originated from - and overlook the influence of the Capitalist structure of society.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 9 de 50

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Crime Statistics, in accordance to Cicourel should be approached with caution - and analysed as TOPICS, not as RESOURCES.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 10 de 50

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Will labelling certain individuals as 'deviant' encourage them to become more deviant? (In accordance to Lemert - 1972)

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 11 de 50

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What is primary deviance?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • An act that has been formally labelled as deviant.

  • An act that has yet to be formally labelled as deviant.

Explicação

Questão 12 de 50

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What is secondary deviance?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Resulting from societal reaction i.e. the labelling of that individual as a deviant. In doing so, stigmatisation is often rife - as is the exclusion of them from normal society. This exclusion from normal society, and the label of deviant can often lead to 'deviant' becoming the MASTER STATUS or the CONTROLLING IDENTITY. Difficult to escape/often seek the company of others who support his master status - thus revert to crime.

  • -

Explicação

Questão 13 de 50

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A self fulfilling prophecy refers to the crisis that an individual may feel as a result of being labelled, and a shift in their self concept whereby they live up to the label. (Secondary Deviance)

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 14 de 50

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Who studied Hippy, Marijuana users as a way to illustrate the process of a self-fulfilling prophecy? And when?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Cicourel (1976)

  • Young (1981)

Explicação

Questão 15 de 50

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A moral entrepreneur is an individual or a group who believes it is their duty to label particular behaviour and continuing to speed this label throughout society. They seek to influence a particular group to maintain or abide to particular norms.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 16 de 50

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The Deviance Amplification Spiral refers to the attempt to control deviance leading to it increasing rather than quashing it. This results in greater attempts to control it, thus more deviance occurs and ultimately an escalating spiral.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 17 de 50

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Is there a similarity between Deviance Amplification and Lemert's idea of secondary deviance?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 18 de 50

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What are the key principles of Interactionism in accordance to Blumer (1969)

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Our actions are based on the meanings we give to situations/people etc. They are not automatic responses to stimuli.
    - These meanings arise from interactions and are to some extent negotiable & changeable.
    - The meanings we give to situations are mainly the result of taking the role of the other.

  • - Human beings are passively responding to the system's needs
    - We do not interpret the meanings around us in any such way, instead the meaning we gain is the meaning offered to us from those with the power.
    - Human Conduct is not individualistic. Assumptions can be made about the entirety of human being's conduct, as we all interpret situations in the same way.

Explicação

Questão 19 de 50

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Blumer argues that although the action we take is partly predictable, because we internalise the expectations of others (so for example, a little boy whose mother openly does not wish for him to eat the last cookie out of the cookie jar may, more often than not, not consume the cookie - due to the expectation by his mother that he won't) - however, there is always some room for choice in how we perform our roles. (he may choose to ignore his mother's wishes.)

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 20 de 50

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What are the 3 Interactionist concepts that Labelling Theorists use?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Definition of the situation (Thomas)
    - Looking glass self (Cooley)
    - Career (Becker)

  • - Social Solidarity
    - Consensus
    - The Organic Analogy

Explicação

Questão 21 de 50

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The criticisms of labelling theory include that it fails to take into account the origins of that label, which may have occurred as a result of the wider social structures such as class inequality. It also fails to explain the consistent patterns of behaviour that humans have.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 22 de 50

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Who came up with the Dramaturgical Model?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Goffman

  • G H. Mead

Explicação

Questão 23 de 50

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Goffman assumes that human beings are:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Passive to the world around them and the influence of the wider social structures
    - Are labelled and exist within the label given to us by others.

  • - Active & Knowledgeable
    - Construct our own 'self' by manipulating others.
    - Different in social settings than when alone.
    - Are social con artists (role-distancing).

Explicação

Questão 24 de 50

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What are two key Dramaturgical Concepts?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Presentation of Self
    - Impression Management

  • - Master Status
    - Verstehen

Explicação

Questão 25 de 50

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Role distancing describes a gap that exists between our 'real selves' and our roles.
They are loosely scripted by society but allow for a lot of freedom in how we play them.
(e.g. the role of a teacher is to educate those you associate with, however - there are numerous ways in which one can seek to play the role of teacher)

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 26 de 50

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Phenomenology is a philosophical term used to describe things as they appear to our senses. We can never really have definite knowledge of our surroundings, as all we know is based on what our minds tell us.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 27 de 50

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Who applied Phenomenology to the Social World?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Schutz

  • Thomas

Explicação

Questão 28 de 50

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Sharing the categories we have created to explain the social world with others is a key part of Phenomenological Theories

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 29 de 50

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A typification, in Schutz's theory, refers to the organisation of our experiences into a world of shared meanings. Contrasts to G H. Mead who argues that the meanings we create are entirely individual.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 30 de 50

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The meaning of an action is dependent on the context. Not the actual action itself. This means that 'meanings' are unclear and unstable. For example, the meaning of an individual making sexual advances towards you when you have known them for a significant amount of time and are comfortable with them, would be different to an individual with whom you had no previous social contact with approaching you with sexual implications in a club. Same act, different context.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 31 de 50

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Do typifications make social order possible?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Yes. They give members of society a shared experience or 'common sense' knowledge that allows us to make sense of our experiences.

  • - No. Individuals do not seek a shared experience in order to make sense of their world.

Explicação

Questão 32 de 50

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What is another term used to describe the concept of 'Common Sense Knowledge?'

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Recipe Knowledge

  • - Recipe Insight

Explicação

Questão 33 de 50

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What does Recipe Knowledge refer to?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Knowing the recipe to Sweet Potato Brownies off by heart. Powerful stuff.

  • We follow this common sense knowledge like a recipe, with little deviation and without thinking too much - we then use it to make sense of the everyday world.

Explicação

Questão 34 de 50

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What does inter-subjective refer to?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • A psychological relationship between people, and how our social world can only exist if we share the same meanings. Contrasts G H. Mead whose ideas are criticised for assuming human nature/interaction is on an individualistic basis.

  • An individual experience had by all, whereby in which we have our own meanings which in no way are similar to others around us.

Explicação

Questão 35 de 50

1

What does Schutz conclude:

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • That the world is a social construct that is 'out there' - created by the shared goals of the members of society. In turn, one can co-operate and achieve goals.

  • That reality is not merely social constructed. It takes on a life of its own and becomes an external reality that ultimately shapes our lives.

Explicação

Questão 36 de 50

1

Who is the key Ethnomethodological Sociologist?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Garfinkel

  • Goffman

Explicação

Questão 37 de 50

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Who is the key Ethnomethodological Sociologist?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Garfinkel

  • Goffman

Explicação

Questão 38 de 50

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Does the process of the construction of social order start from the top (e.g. those in power) or from the bottom? (e.g. the everyday citizens)

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Those in power. They actively shape our understanding of reality and of society, the common sense knowledge they create is the knowledge that we use to understand the society in which we live in.

  • The everyday citizens. The bottoms up approach refers to the idea that our everyday life is constructed based on the creation of common sense knowledge that is shared.

Explicação

Questão 39 de 50

1

In accordance to Garfinkel.. what is the role of the sociologist?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • To uncover the socially constructed taken-for-granted knowledge used to construct social reality.

  • -

Explicação

Questão 40 de 50

1

Indexicality refers to the idea of meanings being unclear and unstable. This can lead to a loss of social order because a lack of communication can result in social relationships breaking down.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 41 de 50

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Reflexivity refers to one's use of the shared common sense knowledge to create social order and meaning, thus preventing Indexicality. Therefore, how can we achieve this?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • - Language, through sharing our experiences through speech it confirms the existence of the 'out there' social reality for us. However, essentially all we have done is create shared meanings.

  • -

Explicação

Questão 42 de 50

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What is the name of the type of experiment Garfinkel used to illustrate the existence of common-sense knowledge?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Breaching. Refers to when one disrupts the expectations of a situation, e.g. acting like a lodger in a parent's house.

  • Birthing.

Explicação

Questão 43 de 50

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One of the criticisms of Ethnomethodology is that they spend a lot of time uncovering trivial taken for granted rules that then don't appear to surprise anybody.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 44 de 50

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What is the name of Giddens theory that combines both action and structural theories?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Structural Action Theory

  • Functionalism

Explicação

Questão 45 de 50

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What is key term used to describe Gidden's idea that structure and action theories cannot exist without each other?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Duality of structure.

  • Structure of Duality.

Explicação

Questão 46 de 50

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What is key term used to describe Gidden's idea that structure and action theories cannot exist without each other?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Duality of structure.

  • Structure of Duality.

Explicação

Questão 47 de 50

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An example of how our actions produce, reproduce and change structure over time is LANGUAGE.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 48 de 50

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What are the two elements of structure?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • - Rules (the norms, customs that govern everyday life)
    - Resources (power over others/economic resources)

    - THEY CAN EITHER BE REPRODUCED OR CHANGED. TEND TO BE REPRODUCED BECAUSE WE REFER TO EXISTING SOCIAL STRUCTURES THAT EXIST WITHIN OUR KNOWLEDGE.
    - WE HAVE A DEEP ROOTED NEED FOR ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY

  • -

Explicação

Questão 49 de 50

1

What does ontological security refer to?

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • - A need to know that the world is safe, stable and predictable.

  • - A need to know that the world is unsafe, unstable and unpredictable.

Explicação

Questão 50 de 50

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Social change can occur because we actively can change structures through our actions. If we disagree with someone, we can form campaign groups to raise awareness for the subject matter and ultimately alter the structure that exists.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

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