Exam 6: Social Control and Deviance

Punishments that are based on the usually unexpressed but widely known rules of group membership are known as unspoken rules and as:

A crime such as burglary is also known as which type of deviance?

Tracy is a woman who rejects the goals defined by society to achieve a big house and lots of money,but she still follows the means and abides by the rules.Merton would classify Tracy as a(n):

Distinguish between informal and formal social deviance.Be sure to give an example of each type.

The student guards in Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment behaved the way they did because:

Which of Durkheim's types of social solidarity characterizes modern life?

When analyzing U.S.crime rates,your textbook author explains that the best indicator we have of crime is the:

An example of emerging resistance to public video surveillance is a project that allows users in New York City to access maps showing the locations of cameras.This project is called:

A society characterized by a high degree of sameness among the individual participants,in which participants perform largely the same functions,has:

Punishments that are overt expressions of official group sentiments toward deviants are also known as:

After a student drops out of high school,she becomes labeled a "drop-out," and her subsequent actions and choices are explained in terms of this label.Those subsequent actions are called:

Summarize one of the labeling theories of deviance,and use it to explain how deviant behavior occurs.How can this theory help us understand variations in the crime rate across time and across different social groups?

Sexual orientation was grounds for excluding immigrants from the United States until:

What is social control? Distinguish between formal social sanctions and informal social sanctions.For what types of deviance are each sanction most effective,and why?

When an elementary school student is labeled as the "class clown" by his teacher,and then adopts the persona and lives up to others' expectations by acting silly,the class clown label has become a:

Summarize Zimbardo's broken windows theory of deviance.Do you think it provides a good explanation for why some neighborhoods are more dangerous than others? Why or why not?

Briefly discuss the effect of the mass incarceration that has resulted from the War on Drugs.

Using Durkheim's work on social cohesion,describe the ways in which punishments for deviance are administered within mechanical and organic solidarity.

Which of the following crimes has the most financial impact in the United States today?

In 1973,the governor of New York State enacted legislation mandating increased prison terms for drug possession and sale.These are still in effect and are known as: