Exam 1: Introducing Deviance

There is an "inner essence" to deviance, a universal, inherent evil that defines what is wrongful everywhere.

In the United States, which of the following is the most morally unacceptable and therefore the most "deviant" of the following activities?

Most of us abide by all of society's rules all of the time.

In the United States, according to federal law, medical marijuana is:

Sociologist do not consider any form of physical characteristic as the basis for defining deviance.

Deviance is a descriptive, not an analytic concept.

The first comprehensive modern deviance textbook was:

It is unfair to judge someone for something that is not the person's fault.

Sociologically, "deviance" is simply something that is different from or deviates from a social norm; nothing else matters.

Polluting the environment is deviant according to:

Over time, deviance has been defined:

The sociologist regards expressing an unpopular belief as a form of deviance.

Do the sociology of deviance textbooks include a chapter on suicide?

Over time, public attitudes toward gay sex represents an example of defining deviance:

Most sociologists of deviance study only motivated behavior; involuntarily-acquired undesirable conditions, such as blindness and dwarfism, cannot be regarded as deviance because they are not the person's fault.

Which of the following behaviors was recognized as a form of seriously wrongful behavior only within the past decade or so?

The Crusades represents a historical example of cognitive deviance-two factions in conflict because they defined right and wrong in different ways.

The sociology of deviance:

Holding (and expressing) an unacceptable belief may be regarded as an example of cognitive deviance.

Beliefs are deviant to the extent that they are false.