Exam 7: Deviance and Conformity

The term ________ is used to refer to deviance as being analogous to illness and typically associated with disease and is the basis for the ________ of society where problems once thought of as social or behavioral in nature are now attributed to disease.

The mode of adaptive behavior that accepts and pursues socially accepted goals but rejects culturally approved means to achieve them is ritualism.

The term also used to describe public order offenses is ________.

Who were the three sociologists who examined deviant subcultures by focusing on the lack of legitimate opportunity available to juvenile delinquents?

The condition identified by a 19th century Italian surgeon that attributed deviance to a package of genetic traits that distinguished violent and habitual criminals from the "normal" noncriminal population was called ________.

In a study by the American Medical Association in 1989, what media form was found to have the greatest influence on teenagers?

Norms that tell us what we should do are classified as being ________; norms that tell us what we should not do are classified as being ________.

According to Walter Reckless, inner containment is the first barrier individuals develop against adopting deviant behavior as being acceptable.

The fact that most people do not commit murder because they believe it is morally wrong, rather than because it is illegal illustrates social control that is:

Which statement is MOST accurate in describing deviance and conformity?

What were the two main issues in the typology of adaptive behavior that Robert Merton developed in strain theory?

There is no definitive conclusion regarding the effects of reading and viewing pornography in respect to whether or not it increases sex crimes or other acts of violence against women.

The Italian surgeon who developed the theoretical explanation that atavism was the cause of deviance was ________.

The normative approach uses pre-established standards of behavior to qualify deviance and implies there are absolute norms, the violation of which automatically constitutes deviance.

In everyday life, the definition of deviance is rather simple, direct, and consistent for all members of the same culture in the same society.

The Italian surgeon Cesare Lombroso developed a theoretical explanation for deviance and crime based on flawed genetic traits. He called this theoretical explanation ________.

Some studies suggest watching violent television shows and playing violent video games provide a vicarious outlet for aggression and reduce the amount of violence engaged in by the viewer. What is this expending of violence through the use of media called?

Who developed the Pyrrhic defeat theory and applied it as a plausible explanation for the failure of the criminal justice system in the United States?

One of the advantages of the interactionist approach in understanding deviance is that it explains the initial motivations for deviance and how members of society decide which norms to enforce and what activities to label as deviant.

Of the following variables, which is perhaps the MOST influential in deviance and conformity?