Deviance Test 1 and 2

The process that sociologists say causes people to become what they are in terms of their beliefs, their occupation, how they relate to one another, their socioeconomic status, and so forth is called

The kind of norms that are so important for the wellbeing of society that they are often made into laws so that people have to follow them are called

An understanding of the sentencing differences between people arrested with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine that concludes the basis for the difference is that white, middle-class people are arrested for using powder cocaine and black, lower-class people are arrested for using crack cocaine is based on

The primary source for the values and norms that we follow in the United States is

) Mary Johnson studied hard and graduated at top of her class in high school, went to CU where she earned a 3.91 GPA, and finally worked to get her PhD in sociology which enabled her to get a high paying job as the Vice President for Research and Development for a Fortune 500 Corporation, a title that reflects her

Mary Johnson finds that she has to attend a planning meeting at her company next Thursday at 6:00 PM, the time that she is supposed to meet with her son’s teacher for the annual parent/teacher conference. Mary is experiencing

According to the film “Killing Us Softly 3,” the institution of society that acts as the mirror or looking glass for people in providing us with the images we feel we must emulate or live up to is

T or F. One of the points Jean Kilbourne makes in “Killing Us Softly 3” is that if an eating disorder can be defined as any disordered attitude toward eating or ones appetite, it is a problem which four out of five young women in the United States are afflicted

One of the consequences of considering deviance as being equated to evil or sin is

According to Cesar Beccaria and the Classical School, the main reason we punish people is

Both Cesar Lombroso and Enrique Ferri divided criminals into different groups defined by the characteristics of the offenders, a process they thought was necessary in order to

The major problem we have in dealing with criminals who are classified as sociopathic is that they have a lack of empathy which

According to the strain theory Social Disorganization or Anomie I, the cause of crime in poor neighborhoods is a combination of poor, disorganized living conditions and

The underlying assumption of control theory is that

According to Frank Tannenbaum’s labeling ideas, the idea of looking at children as either being in a delinquent group or in a nondelinquent group, that is either being in good or bad group, is