Exam 2: Explaining Deviance: The Act

According to social bonds theory, some people abstain from deviance because they would have too much to lose in their lives if they became deviant. This refers to the social bond of belief.

Briefly explain the difference between mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity and how the societal type would impact deviance.

Differential association theory maintains that the group interactions to which one is exposed have an impact on the learning of deviance. Explain the various types of group interactions, according to this theory.

Which of the following theories includes the claim that traditional gender roles, wherein women perform expressive tasks and men perform instrumental tasks, ensure that the family division of labour is done efficiently?

According to Parnaby and Sacco's (2004)research on celebrity and strain, culture jamming is an example of Merton's "rebellion" mode of adaptation.

The role of social media today is prolific and it has added a new dimension to social experience. Using any positivist theories, design a research question that you would examine if you were conducting research. Indicate how the theory relates to your question.

Which of the following theories best explains why university students who place a high value on academic work, but have GPAs below 3.0 and score high on measures of depression, are most likely to use "homework drugs"?

Cherise lives in a neighbourhood where there is an organized group of people involved in selling illegal weapons to rival gangs. Seeing an opportunity to make some money, Cherise joins this group of weapons dealers. According to Cloward and Ohlin's differential opportunity theory, what type of group has Cherise joined?

The concept of self-control is central to the explanation of deviance found in Hirschi's social bonds theory.

Which of the following theories is a social control theory?

According to social learning theory, what are the four sources of all behaviour and how can this lead to deviance?

The general theory of crime is also known as self-control theory.

According to the general theory of crime, deviance is the result of learning within small groups.

Cohen's theory of status frustration is categorized as both a subcultural theory and a functionalist theory.

Which of the following scenarios reflects social learning theory?

Which of the following is not one of the components of Agnew's General Strain Theory?

Jack is in a rock band. They have been working for years to be 'discovered' and it just doesn't seem to be happening. Jack's band decides to give up the dream of making it big to start a business playing cover songs at weddings, because at least that allows them stay in music. If you were going to apply Merton's strain theory to Jack's current life, he would be:

Explain the use of "homework drugs" among university students, according to Agnew's general strain theory.

Parsons and Smelser argue that letting off steam through minor acts of deviance is the gateway to more extreme versions of deviance.

Identify the different types of research interests of deviance specialists that lean toward the more objective end of the objective-subjective continuum and those that lean toward the more subjective end of the continuum. Explain why each of these groups of deviance specialists tends to utilize different types of theories, identify those theories, and describe how those types of theories are related to the differential interests of each of these deviance specialists.