Multiple Choice Questions

Self-fulfilling Prophecy: an inaccurate statement or belief that, by altering the situation, becomes accurate; a prediction that causes itself to come true
  • Which of the following is NOT one of the topics that is examined when sociologists study deviance?
  • What did Robert Merton call a prediction that came true only because the prediction was made?
  • Which kinds of departures from the norm can have a stigmatizing effect on an individual's identity?
  • Why was imprisonment such a rare type of punishment before the nineteenth century?
An approach to punishment that attempts to reform criminals as part of their penalty.
  • Deterrence
  • Retribution
  • Incapacitation
  • Rehabilitation
Individuals who have given up hope of achieving society's approved goals but still operate according to society's approved means.
  • Innovators
  • Retreatists
  • Rebels
  • Ritualists
Redefining the stigma associated with deviant label as a positive phenomenon.
  • Social Control
  • White Collar Crime
  • Deviance Avowal
  • Tertiary Deviance
Instances where a rule violation is, or seems to be, an admirable act, that should be supported.
  • Innovators
  • How do sociologists define positive deviance?
  • Retreatists
  • Ritualists
In labeling theory, the subsequent deviant identity or career that develops as a result of being labeled deviant.
  • Secondary Deviance
  • Primary Deviance
  • The parents of a deviant child often want to find some way to excuse their offspring's behavior, and it's common to hear them say, "He just fell in with a bad crowd." Which symbolic interactionist theory of deviance does this explanation most closely resemble?
  • Deterrence
deviant behavior must be sufficiently serious or unusual to spark a negative sanction or punishment.
  • Because laws represent the interests of those in power, crimes committed by the upper classes are typically treated more leniently than crimes committed by the lower classes. This argument is consistent with
  • Criminal Justice System
  • According to Jack Katz in "Seduction of Crime", why might teenagers shoplift?
  • In order for a behavior, trait, or belief to be considered deviant, it must:
The formal and informal mechanisms used to increase conformity to values and norms and thus promote social cohesion.
  • Deviance Avowal
  • Social Control
  • Retribution
  • Incapacitation
Crimes in which violence is either the objective or the means to an end, including murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery.
  • Social Control
  • Positive Deviance
  • White Collar Crime
  • Violent Crime
An inaccurate statement or belief that, by altering the situation, becomes accurate; a prediction that causes itself to come true.
  • In-group orientation
  • Retribution
  • Self-fulfilling Prophecy
  • Positive Deviance
Individuals who reject society's approved goals and means and instead create and work toward their own (sometimes revolutionary) goals using new means.
  • Retreatists
  • Innovators
  • Ritualists
  • Rebels
They want the thrill of getting away with breaking the rules.
  • Tertiary Deviance
  • According to Jack Katz in "Seduction of Crime", why might teenagers shoplift?
  • Which of the following is NOT one of the topics that is examined when sociologists study deviance?
  • The idea that individuals learn to be deviant by interacting with others who are already deviant is called:
Stealing minor items in small amounts, often again and again.
  • Passing
  • Desistance
  • Tertiary Deviance
  • Plifering
A violation of a norm that has been codified into law.
  • Passing
  • Crime
  • Plifering
  • Deviance
Deviance can help society clarify its moral boundaries: what is right and wrong.Promote social cohesion(functionalists value this): people can be brought together in the face of crime or other violations.
  • Ritualists
  • Innovators
  • Which of the following describes how deviance can be explained from the functionalist perspective?
  • How do sociologists define positive deviance?
Presenting yourself as a member of a different group than the stigmatized group you belong.
  • Passing
  • Plifering
  • Deviance
  • Outsiders
The death penalty.
  • Innovators
  • Ritualists
  • Capital Punishment
  • How do sociologists define positive deviance?
Edwin Sutherland's hypothesis that we learn to be deviant through our associations with deviant peers.
  • Structural Strain Theory
  • Differential Association Theory
  • The parents of a deviant child often want to find some way to excuse their offspring's behavior, and it's common to hear them say, "He just fell in with a bad crowd." Which symbolic interactionist theory of deviance does this explanation most closely resemble?
  • Primary Deviance
Physical disability, alcohol addiction, mental illness, and having served time in jail. All of the above.
  • Which of the following is NOT one of the topics that is examined when sociologists study deviance?
  • Which of the following is NOT considered a violent crime by the UCR (Uniform crime report)?
  • Which kinds of departures from the norm can have a stigmatizing effect on an individual's identity?
  • Why was imprisonment such a rare type of punishment before the nineteenth century?
Among stigmatized individuals, the rejection or prevailing judgments or prejudice and the development of new standards that value their group identity.
  • Violent Crime
  • Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
  • Self-fulfilling Prophecy
  • In-group orientation
Howard Becker's idea that deviance is a consequence of external judgments, or labels, that modify the individual's self-concept and change the way others respond to the labeled person.
  • Deviance
  • Structural Strain Theory
  • Social Control
  • Labeling Theory
Crimes that did not involve violence, including burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
  • Tertiary Deviance
  • Property Crime
  • Violent Crime
  • Positive Deviance
An official measure of crime in the United States, produced by the FBI's official tabulation of every crime reported by more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies.
  • Self-fulfilling Prophecy
  • Deterrence
  • Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
  • In-group orientation
Norms are universal and always identified as deviant across cultures and times
  • Which of the following is NOT considered a violent crime by the UCR (Uniform crime report)?
  • Which of the following is NOT one of the topics that is examined when sociologists study deviance?
  • White Collar Crime
  • According to Jack Katz in "Seduction of Crime", why might teenagers shoplift?
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