Exam 6: Deviance

When compared with other countries, the United States has the world's highest rates of most types of crime, but has one of the world's lowest rates of incarceration.

Which of the following is an example of deviance?

Which of the following statements regarding stigma is correct?

Feminist sociologists contend that the so-called victimless crime of prostitution, as well as the more disturbing aspects of pornography

Stanley Milgram distinguishes between two levels of social control, conformity and obedience. Generally, conformity requires greater coercion than obedience.

Which of the following is traditionally an example of transnational crime?

Moira has been assigned to work on a project for her company, but her partner on the project is lazy and difficult to work with. After an especially unproductive day, Moira complains to her boss. Her boss sympathizes, but warns Moira that if she doesn't finish the project on time, he will be forced to drop her from consideration for a promotion. The reaction of Moira's boss is an example of

The managing editor of a newspaper, acting on an order from the publisher, fires three editors, one of whom is an old friend. The editor's actions are an example of

White-collar crimes can be defined as victimless crimes committed by high-status individuals.

Deviance is behavior that

To define an act as deviant is to make a subjective judgment, but it can be objectively determined that all deviant acts have a negative impact on the moral standards of a society.

Sociologists use the term ______ to describe the process of labeling of someone as less than a whole person because they are perceived as being different.

A comparison of official crime statistics with victimization surveys reveals that a significant proportion of crimes are NOT reported to police.

What is a victimization survey?

Arnold gets a perfect grade on his organic chemistry exam because he copies most of his answers from Stanley, the high achiever sitting next to him. According to Merton's strain theory of deviance, under which of the following categories would Arnold be classified?

A crime is a violation of

In Robert Merton's terms, people who blindly apply bureaucratic rules and regulations without remembering the larger goals of the organization can be classified as

Anomie would be likely to occur in a society during which of the following events?

Labeling theory asserts that deviance is determined by the response to an act rather than by the act itself. Do you agree with this perspective? What are the implications of this view for punishing deviant behavior?

According to the results of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment, two-thirds of participants were prepared to inflict pain on another human on the orders of an authority figure. In your view, what do these results indicate? Do you agree with Milgram's assessment that "if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town"?