Question 1

Which of the following nations has the highest incarceration rate?

Accepted Answer

A) Sweden 
B) Japan 
C) Iran 
D) the United States

Question 2

Which of the following statements about capital punishment is true?

Accepted Answer

A) There is little empirical evidence to support the idea that it deters people from engaging in crimes. 
B) States with the death penalty have lower homicide rates. 
C) Compared to other racial and ethnic groups,white non-Hispanics are disproportionately sentenced to death. 
D) The overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they do not support capital punishment.

Question 3

Which kind of crime poses the greater economic threat to Americans?

Accepted Answer

A) street crime 
B) welfare crime 
C) corporate crime 
D) violent crime

Question 4

In her study of former mental patients,Nancy Herman found that former mental patients were

Accepted Answer

A) likely to return to the hospital. 
B) likely to commit crimes. 
C) viewed as "defective" by others. 
D) able to return to their lives with no difficulty.

Question 5

In general,poor people are more likely than affluent people to be arrested,charged,and convicted of crimes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which type of drug is routinely used by students to improve academic performance?

Accepted Answer

A) antidepressants 
B) sedatives 
C) stimulants 
D) hallucinogens

Question 7

Instead of judging whether an act should or shouldn't be considered deviant,sociologists examine

Accepted Answer

A) only the empirically observable facts that pertain to guilt or innocence. 
B) the role of psychopathology in deviance. 
C) the relationship between genes and environment (epigenetics). 
D) how definitions of deviance are created and transmitted,as well as patterns related to deviance.

Question 8

A number of Catholic priests have been found guilty of child molestation.Clergy sexual abuse scandals are sociologically interesting because

Accepted Answer

A) the perpetrators didn't fit the stereotypical image of a child molester. 
B) many of the perpetrators were found to be mentally disordered. 
C) the monetary fallout was so severe. 
D) the majority of victims continue to suffer medical problems.

Question 9

In the United States,individual perceptions of,and attitudes about,deviance and social harm are always rooted in sound empirical research.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The relativist approach to deviance draws from which two sociological perspectives?

Accepted Answer

A) social learning and cultural empiricism 
B) labeling and structural functionalist 
C) ecological and strain theory 
D) symbolic interactionism and the conflict perspective

Question 11

Capital punishment is probably the most well-known example of labeling theory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

What basic assumption underlies deterrence theory?

Accepted Answer

A) Deviance is not absolute,but socially defined. 
B) The desire to violate social norms is a normal aspect of development. 
C) People rationally consider the costs and benefits of behavior before they act. 
D) People who commit deviant acts are inherently flawed.

Question 13

According to a relativist perspective on deviance,behavior is either inherently good or bad.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Harsh criminal punishment for white collar criminals has been directed mostly at _____ rather than _____.

Accepted Answer

A) individuals;corporations 
B) corporations;individuals 
C) government agencies;private companies 
D) private companies;government agencies

Question 15

A person who is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit would NOT be considered deviant.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

A temperance culture is one that

Accepted Answer

A) encourages citizens to use prescription drugs to solve personal problems. 
B) tolerates alternative lifestyles and behaviors. 
C) discourages its citizens from using alcohol. 
D) values self-control and industriousness in its citizens.

Question 17

According to Edwin Sutherland's theory of deviance,

Accepted Answer

A) people learn from their mistakes only when they are punished. 
B) people become deviant only after they have been labeled "deviant" by others. 
C) people learn deviant patterns of behavior from the people with whom they associate on a regular basis. 
D) people rationally consider the potential benefits and costs before engaging in deviance.

Question 18

What are "stand your ground" laws? Why are they controversial?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What are "stand your ground" laws? Why...

Question 19

Which drug is NOT mentioned on the U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration's website?

Accepted Answer

A) marijuana 
B) heroin 
C) oxycodone 
D) alcohol

Question 20

Today,which of these individuals would draw the strongest expression of American outrage?

Accepted Answer

A) a foreign terrorist 
B) a vegetarian 
C) a lesbian 
D) a drug addict

Exam 8: Constructing Difference: Social Deviance

Which of the following nations has the highest incarceration rate?

Which of the following statements about capital punishment is true?

Which kind of crime poses the greater economic threat to Americans?

In her study of former mental patients,Nancy Herman found that former mental patients were

In general,poor people are more likely than affluent people to be arrested,charged,and convicted of crimes.

Which type of drug is routinely used by students to improve academic performance?

Instead of judging whether an act should or shouldn't be considered deviant,sociologists examine

A number of Catholic priests have been found guilty of child molestation.Clergy sexual abuse scandals are sociologically interesting because

In the United States,individual perceptions of,and attitudes about,deviance and social harm are always rooted in sound empirical research.

The relativist approach to deviance draws from which two sociological perspectives?

Capital punishment is probably the most well-known example of labeling theory.

What basic assumption underlies deterrence theory?

According to a relativist perspective on deviance,behavior is either inherently good or bad.

Harsh criminal punishment for white collar criminals has been directed mostly at _ rather than _.

A person who is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit would NOT be considered deviant.

A temperance culture is one that

According to Edwin Sutherland's theory of deviance,

What are "stand your ground" laws? Why are they controversial?

Which drug is NOT mentioned on the U.S.Drug Enforcement Administration's website?

Today,which of these individuals would draw the strongest expression of American outrage?