Exam 10: The Deviance Dance Continues

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Monitoring our behaviours to prevent deviance is

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Dry campuses have been criticized by some substance abuse experts for simply moving drinking off campus.

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People who are socially typed as "too fat" face discrimination in employment,housing,education,and health care.

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Discuss the fact that deviance can be positive.How is the existence of some deviance benefiting our society? If it is positive,why is it still considered deviant? Provide examples to support your position.

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According to human rights documents,human dignity is/was violated by

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Physical and mental health are necessary for the "security of person and property" contained in human rights legislation.

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The concept of the deviance dance is illustrated by the student opposition to "dry campuses" that exists at various colleges.

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Which of the following are themes that are shared among the various human rights documents found throughout the world?

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_________are powerful moral entrepreneurs,and have tremendous influence as to who or what is deviant.

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During the witch persecutions,certain people were burned at the stake because it was believed they were causing harm within the community.This belief reflects the_________________ component of the social typing process.

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Formal and informal social control measures are part of the ___________component of the social typing process.

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By the end of the 20th century,child abuse was illegal in all nations in the world.

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Socialization is a form of retroactive social control.

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Give three examples of how perceptions of deviance change over time.

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While science does provide information to support the labelling of deviance,it is merely a tool to be used by other moral entrepreneurs to construct deviance.In its objective to stay neutral,science itself does not directly attempt to influence the dominant moral codes of our society.

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Subjective interests in a person being "too fat" or "too thin" have to do with the potential health risks and not with standards of physical beauty.

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The process of deinstitutionalization illustrates how the social control of mental illness has changed over time.

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The medical community plays a role in the social typing of "too fat".

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Both the social typing process and the deviance dance are evident in all of the substantive topics addressed in the textbook.

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The belief that an individual should not be discriminated against based on their genetic traits is supported by the

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