Sociology Chapt. 7

1. Which of the following statements is true of deviance?

Deviance is always criminal behavior

Deviance is behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society

Deviance is perverse behavior

Deviance is inappropriate behavior that cuts across all cultures and social orders

2. Society brings about acceptance of basic norms through techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior. This process is termed

Stigmatization

Labeling

Law

Social control

3. Which sociological perspective argues that people must respect social norms if any group or society is to survive?

Conflict

Interactionist

Functionalist

Feminist

4. Stanley Milgram used the word conformity to mean

Going along with peers

Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure

Techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society

Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm

5. Which of the following is not one of the basic forms of adaptations specified in Robert Merton's anomie theory of deviance?

Conformity

Innovation

Ritualism

Hostility

6. Which of the following theories contends that criminal victimization increases when communal relationships and social institutions break down?

Labeling theory

Conflict theory

Social disorganization theory

Differential association theory

7. Which sociological theory suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to conform systematically to society's norms?

Feminist theory

Control theory

Interactionist theory

Functionalist theory

8. Which of the following conducted observation research on two groups of high school males (the Saints and the Roughnecks) and concluded that social class played an important role in the varying fortunes of the two groups?

Richard Quinney

Edwin Sutherland

Emile Durkheim

William Chambliss

9. Which sociologist first advanced the idea that an individual undergoes the same basic socialization process whether learning conforming or deviant acts?

Robert Merton

Edwin Sutherland

Travis Hirschi

William Chambliss

10. Which sociologist illustrated the boundary-maintenance function of deviance in his study of Puritans in 17th-century New England?

Kai Erikson

Emile Durkheim

Robert Merton

Edwin Sutherland