Chapter 6 Practice Quizzes

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. Disagreement about norms usually means that they are _________.

unrealistic correct incorrect

useful 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 normalization correct incorrect

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. Which is not a stigma identified by Erving Goffman?

bodily stigmata correct incorrect

moral stigmata correct incorrect

mental stigmata correct incorrect

tribal stigmata correct incorrect

All of the answers listed are 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 answers listed 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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. Which of the following is an example of racializing deviance?

Movies that portray all Italians as being involved in organized crime correct incorrect

News reports that link young Black men with gangs and gun violence correct incorrect

Television shows that focus on men and women of Arab background as being a terrorist correct incorrect

All of the answers listed are ways that deviance is racialized correct incorrect

None of the answers listed are correct, these are examples of carding 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 unequal 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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. Male homosexuality tends to be sanctioned more heavily than female sexuality and there are some countries where only male sexuality is illegal.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Edwin Sutherland introduced the term white collar crime in 1939.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In Travis Hirschi's Social Control Theory, a key factor in preventing deviance was social bonding

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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. Drugs and immigrants are common features of moral panics.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Canadians tend to overestimate the rate of crime generally and of violent crime in particular.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. A moral entrepreneur often tries to combat moral panics and decrease fear around issues.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Deviance is not synonymous with criminality.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. An important concept in the sociological study of deviance is "the Other" or "Otherness". Once deviant behaviour is associated with the Other, negative sanctions or punishment might be the outcome.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect