Exam 9: What Do You Believe Religion, science, and Deviance

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The media,including its use of the Internet,create a moral panic in their coverage of cults,in part due to the media's profit motive.

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Describe the role of corporatization in scientific misconduct

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Which of the following is an example of a belief system?

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According to Foucault (1980),a relationship exists between knowledge claims,power,and

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According to scientific research on cults,the public concerns that emerge as a consequence of popular images of cults are entirely unfounded.

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The blurring of boundaries between religious and political belief systems can be perceived as religion as a social typer of deviance as well as religion as deviance,depending on one's point of view.

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List the five components of the population prevention approach to controlling scientific misconduct

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Unlike religious belief systems,scientific belief systems proclaim "truths".

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Scientific misconduct occurs more frequently in biomedical fields.

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The conservative nature of the scientific community contributes to those instances where real sciences are initially perceived as deviant sciences.

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Which religious group has been perceived as evil,dangerous and a threat to the social order?

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Which of the following statements about the witch persecutions is true?

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Empirical research has found a relationship between religiosity and

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A survey of more than 2,000 researchers revealed that more than one-third of incidents of scientific misconduct of which they were personally aware were never reported to anyone.

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The horrors of Nazi Germany led the Canadian federal government and provincial governments to immediately halt their eugenics programs.

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Which of the following is a characteristic of The Family of Love?

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Within the normative structure of science (Merton,1973),the norm of disinterestedness means that scientific work is done in the name of "truth."

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In the 21st century,a study released findings to the public that increasing rates of autism were related to vaccinations.This study caused a moral panic across the world as medical professionals and parents sought to determine if this relationship was true.This study was later discovered to have elements of scientific misconduct.The fact that this deviance was discovered supports Ben-Yehuda's theory on examining science for deviance.

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The phenomenon by which clinical drug research is done by commercial centres hired by pharmaceutical companies is know as

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"Science" consists of

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