Exam 3: Social Structure, Interaction & Deviance

Feminist theorists of crime and deviance have noted which of the following?

When Reena returns to school after summer break, she notices that all of her friends have begun to wear makeup, so she asks her mother if she can wear makeup too. What kind of behaviour is Reena displaying?

Which of the following is true of deviance?

Guiliana, a second generation Italian-Canadian, is a respected contemporary composer. She is also visually impaired, having lost her sight due to scarlet fever as a child. Which of the following is an achieved status attached to Guiliana?

Which of the following may be considered a positive consequence of the bureaucratization of a college or university for the students?

What is a master status?

Bureaucratization increases ____________ and decreases ____________.

When individuals experience a loss of direction in a society, the society's social control becomes ineffective, often leading to increases in crime and deviance. This statement is supported by which of the following?

Imagining the effects of a virtual networking site where participants can create an avatar that is an online representation of a character different from their actual identity, a symbolic interactionist would argue that which of the following will occur?

What shift in society caused a huge migration from rural to urban areas in Western Europe during the nineteenth century?

To what does the term social control refer?

On a typical day, which country imprisons 751 of every 100,000 adults?

An alcoholic who has lost his job and left his family to live on the street is considered to be practicing which of the following forms of adaptation as described by sociologist Robert Merton?

Which of the following is NOT an activity likely to be engaged in by organized crime?

Edwin Sutherland coined the term stigma to describe the labels society uses to devalue members of certain social groups.

Andina lives in a large village where most people grow corn. In the spring, teams of oxen pull plows to till the fields and in the fall, the corn is dried, and then ground into flour at a mill where donkeys turn the grindstone. According to Gerhard Lenski, Andina's society is which of the following?

Discuss the relationship between cultural transmission and differential association in explaining deviance or criminal acts. Give an illustration of how a person would likely become criminal using the differential association process.

More than 50 women, mostly poor, Aboriginal, and substance-addicted, disappeared from Vancouver's downtown east side over a little more than a decade. For a long time, police investigations of these disappearances were cursory. Critics charge that this would not have been the case if these women were white, university-educated and middle-class. Of what could this be considered an example?

A bureaucracy, according to Max Weber, is oriented towards which of the following?

Discuss the various components of social control. Identify and describe how sanctions may be used to control the expectations of society regarding people's actions and behaviours.