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Exam 3: Constructing Deviance
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Question 21
Multiple Choice
The central, guiding, foundational concept in all constructionist perspectives toward deviance is:
Question 22
True/False
To labeling theorists, there is only one relevant audience-the general society.
Question 23
Essay
Why did feminists criticize all other prior perspectives toward deviance and crime? According to feminism, what were the deficiencies and flaws of these perspectives? In their estimation, what would an adequate and valid theory of deviance and crime look like?
Question 24
True/False
In addition to studying the passage and enforcement of criminal laws, conflict theorists have also examined the causes of criminal behavior.
Question 25
Multiple Choice
Controlologists tend to focus on:
Question 26
True/False
Labeling involves the process of attaching a stigmatizing definition to an activity, belief, condition, or person.
Question 27
True/False
The two intellectual enterprises-the study of causes of deviance and the social construction of deviance-are contradictory rather than complementary.
Question 28
Multiple Choice
A central argument of labeling theory as spelled out by Howard Becker, the most well-known of its proponents:
Question 29
True/False
The labeling theory of deviance grew out of the general approach known as symbolic interactionism.
Question 30
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The central concept in conflict theory is disparities in power between and among social categories in the population.
Question 31
True/False
Marxism is a variety of conflict theory.
Question 32
Multiple Choice
Feminist theorists of deviance have charged that the field, as a general rule and until very recently, has regarded:
Question 33
True/False
The "major" mode of labeling theory examines the causal or etiological role of labeling as a cause of deviance.
Question 34
Multiple Choice
Feminists argue that when women do appear in deviance research, they are often relegated to the periphery of attention, with men given center stage. What is the most appropriate term for the phenomenon of a male-centered bias?