Exam 7: Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control: With Emphasis on Mass Surveillance

Stanley Milgram wrote, "The person who, with inner conviction, loathes stealing, killing, and assault may find himself committing these acts with relative ease." Under what conditions does Milgram believe this happens?

Sociologist Terry Williams finds that to become a successful drug dealer, youth must learn a number of skills: pleasing the boss, meeting goals, and getting along with associates. These specific findings support

Jeremy wore barrettes to nursery school. One day, a boy repeatedly told Jeremy that "only girls wear barrettes." The incident shows how __________ work as mechanisms of social control.

"Deviance is likely to be high when the legitimate opportunities for meeting the culturally-valued goals are closed to a significant portion of people." This statement is most closely associated with which theory of deviance?

People whose rule breaking is treated as something so significant that it cannot be overlooked or explained away are known as

A social arrangement in which surveillance is used to control people's activities and thoughts is known as a

People whose rule breaking is viewed as understandable, incidental, or insignificant are known as

What does it mean to live in a society where people are told that they can be anything they want if they work hard enough? The questions relates to the concept of

_______ are people who have not broken the rules but are treated as if they have.

Summarize the responses to surveillance as presented by structural strain theory. Do any of the responses apply to your life?

Surveillance is a mechanism of social control with a goal of

__________________ are people who have broken the rules but whose violation goes unnoticed.

After September 11, 2001, Muslims and Arab Americans have been caught up in a criminal investigation of historical proportions. From a sociological point of view, this criminal investigation qualifies as

Criminal behavior is not simply the result of association with criminal ways-other factors such as social settings that offer people the opportunity to commit particular types of crime also play a role. These factors are known as

Prison populations include pure deviants and

Identify a deviant behavior profiled in the news. Which sociological theories help to explain that behavior?

A social arrangement that normalizes surveillance, making it expected and routine is known as a

A person takes on a(n)_______________ when his or her deviant status becomes more important than any other status he or she occupies.

In Stanley Milgram's classic experiment, Obedience to Authority , he discovered that obedience was founded on

The U.S. Department of State publishes the Human Rights Report on the People's Republic of China. The report accuses the Chinese government of human rights violations. Constructionist theorists would call this report