Chapter 6 Practice Quiz

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. Disagreement about norms usually means that they are what?

Unrealistic correct incorrect

Resources correct incorrect

Flawed correct incorrect

Contested correct incorrect

Innovative correct incorrect

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. What term do sociologists use to describe a campaign designed to arouse concern over an issue or group?

Moral uproar correct incorrect

Immoral action correct incorrect

Moral deviance correct incorrect

Moral panic correct incorrect

Moral normal correct incorrect

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. Which is not a stigma identified by Goffman?

bodily stigmata correct incorrect

moral stigmata correct incorrect

mental stigmata correct incorrect

tribal stigmata correct incorrect

A-D are each examples of stigmata identified by Goffman correct incorrect

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. Which of the following statements about deviance is true?

Deviance varies from culture to culture. correct incorrect

Deviance changes over time. correct incorrect

Deviance varies within cultures. correct incorrect

A behaviour may be seen as deviant depending on who defines it. correct incorrect

All of the above statements are true. correct incorrect

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. Who coined the term "impression management"?

Emily Murphy correct incorrect

Max Weber correct incorrect

Robert Merton correct incorrect

Erving Goffman correct incorrect

Émile Durkheim correct incorrect

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. What is a heteronormative bias?

A bias that sees homosexuality as desirable correct incorrect

A bias that gives preference to bisexuality correct incorrect

A position that views any sexual behaviour as normal correct incorrect

A bias that favours heterosexual standards and behaviour correct incorrect

A position that views any sexual behaviour as abnormal correct incorrect

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. Who developed labelling theory?

Howard Becker correct incorrect

Albert Cohen correct incorrect

Edwin Sutherland correct incorrect

Robert Merton correct incorrect

Karl Marx correct incorrect

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. What is the main theme in J. M. Smith's book, Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of containment?

mentally disturbed people as deviants correct incorrect

people with disability as deviants correct incorrect

gay men as deviants correct incorrect

women as social deviants correct incorrect

racial minorities as deviants correct incorrect

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. Which theory identifies a disconnect between society's culturally defined goals and the uneven distribution of the means necessary to achieve those goals?

Strain theory correct incorrect

Labelling theory correct incorrect

Subcultural theory correct incorrect

Control theory correct incorrect

Differential association theory correct incorrect

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. Class bias is at the centre of which hypothesis?

farm-to-table hypothesis correct incorrect

schools-to-work hypothesis correct incorrect

-life-and-death hypothesis correct incorrect

schools-to-prison hypothesis correct incorrect

prison-to-society hypothesis correct incorrect

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. Racial profiling, although morally and ethically wrong, is not illegal.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Some conspiracy theorists claimed Greta Thunberg received undue attention due as she is on the autism spectrum.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Having a criminal record might carry with it a stigma.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In order for an act to be considered deviant, somebody in a position of power has to define the act as such.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. "Punishing" disability by failing to accommodate differences in physical ability is seen as an act of omission.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Greta Thunberg unknowingly participated in demonstrably deviant behavior.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Generally, the norms of society are uncontested.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Greta Thunberg undertook this deviant course of action due to peer pressure.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Edward Said's study called orientalism discusses the negative characterization of the Middle East by mainstream Western culture.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Contrary to popular belief, sanctions are almost always negative.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect