Chapter 14: Straying: Deviance
1. Deviance, like beauty, is:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Only skin deep
Something to admire
In the eye of the beholder
Objectively true
2. Deviance and social control are:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Exactly the same thing
Two sides of a mutually constitutive process
Strictly issues in psychology
All about making the world a better place
3. People labelled as ‘deviants’ are viewed as ‘______’ to society:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Outsiders
Central
Constructive
None of the above
4. Ridicule, moral condemnation, shaming and stigma are examples of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Deviant behaviour
Social norms
Social control
Disobedience
5. The reason certain types of people are labelled deviant is often determined by:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Priests
Communicative consensus
The opinions of Sociologists
Unequal access to power
6. Torture, imprisonment and forced sterilization are examples of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Control rituals
Effective governance
Evidence based policy
Non-coercion
7. Who participates in deviance and/or social control rituals?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Only poor people and drug addicts
Criminals and the government
Everyone
Criminals, experts, politicians and policy makers
8. To secure common sense in the interests of power creates:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Good policy
The basis of democracy
Social harmony
Cultural hegemony
9. Between 1980 and 1991 how many Salvadorian civilians were secretly killed or made to
‘disappear’ by United States supported death squads?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Approximately 1,000
Approximately 5,000
Approximately 75,000
The United States did not support such actions
10. Which social theorist pioneered the functional account of deviance?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Karl Marx
Max Weber
George Herbert Mead
Emile Durkheim
11. Positive functions of deviance include:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Tension reduction, boundary setting and group solidarity
Group Solidarity, moral conditioning and pathological social conditions
Moral conditioning, innovation and deviant adaptations
Tension reduction, anomie and cultural Innovation
12. Talcott Parsons pictured society as:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Constantly experiencing profound change
Resistant to change
An imaginary construction
A self-adjusting system
13. The term ‘anomie’ was used by Durkheim to describe:
a)
b)
c)
d)
The animalistic nature of humans
A state of normlessness
Social reproduction through imitation
A type of Japanese cartoon featuring deviant acts
14. Which of the following is NOT one of Merton’s deviant ‘adaptations’?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Innovation
Rebellion
Formalism
Ritualism
15. Selling illegal drugs, engaging in prostitution and corporate price-fixing are examples of what
kind of deviant adaptation?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ritualism
Innovation
Formalism
Conformity
16. Who wrote the famous paper ‘Social Structure and Anomie’?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Max Weber
Talcot Parsons
Jacques Derrida
Robert K. Merton
17. Learning to be deviant takes place in:
a)
b)
c)
d)
The same way as learning anything else
Poor Neighbourhoods and sociology lectures
Low socio-economic areas and prisons
Dramatically different ways to formal education
18. Which of the following is not one of Gabriel Tarde’s ‘laws of imitation’?
a)
b)
c)
d)
the law of insertion
the law of interpretation
the law of close contact
the law of imitation of superiors by inferiors
19. According to Edwin H. Sutherland, to succeed in deviance one must master:
a)
b)
c)
d)
the tricks of the trade
the art of war
cracking a safe
one’s irrational impulses
20. Individuals who are labelled deviant are sometimes pushed in the direction of:
a)
b)
c)
d)
Prisons and police stations
Anti-social behaviour
Drug rehabilitation programmes
Secondary deviance