Deck 16: Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

Question 1

Which of the following statements does NOT relate to social control?

A) The way deviant behaviour is managed and conformity is induced
B) The control of the population by social groups
C) The power of medical experts to recognise cultural differences in definitions of illness and abnormality
D) The ability to label some groups as normal and provide them with certain rights and privileges

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following statements best describes 'labelling theory'?

A) A symbolic-interactionist theory that focuses on the social reaction that identifies and interprets certain activities or individuals as deviant
B) A feminist sociological theory that focuses on gendered labelling of certain deviant acts
C) A functionalist theory of deviance that focuses on the normative aspects of deviance that underpin why some actions are defined as deviant
D) A Marxist theory that focuses on how class is linked to deviance, particularly how powerful groups are able to define the disadvantaged as potentially deviant

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is the sociological term for responses to deviance that are aimed at reducing or stemming deviance and achieving conformity to particular social norms?

A) Stigma
B) Reintegrative shaming
C) Culture-bound syndrome
D) Social control

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which one of the following is NOT one of Hirschi's four bonds to society that inhibit deviance?

A) Attachment
B) Involvement
C) Commitment
D) Conformity

Question 5

Who coined the term 'reintegrative shaming'?

A) Michel Foucault
B) John Braithwaite
C) Howard Becker
D) Robert Merton

Question 6

Which one of the following is NOT one of Merton's five possible forms of behaviour across the conformity-deviance spectrum?

A) Shame
B) Ritualism
C) Conformity
D) Rebellion

Question 7

What is the term for a process that makes a criminal offender apologise to the victim/s and engage in some form of restitution to the victim/community?

A) Anomie
B) Ritualism
C) Labelling theory
D) Reintegrative shaming

Question 8

What is the sociological term for a societal condition in which individuals feel aimless and lack guidance in social norms?

A) Rebellion
B) Stigma
C) Alienation
D) Anomie

Question 9

Which sociologist is the term 'moral panic' most closely associated with?

A) Robert Merton
B) Howard Becker
C) Stanley Cohen
D) Edwin Sutherland

Question 10

Who famously said: 'deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an "offender". The deviant is one to whom the label has successfully been applied; deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label'?

A) Robert Merton
B) Howard Becker
C) Stanley Cohen
D) Travis Hirschi