Chapter 7 - Deviance Review

Chapter 7 - Deviance Review

Multiple Choice

Ways that people and society try and get people to conform to social norms is known as:

• Social control

• Deviance

• Individuality

• Crime

Multiple Choice

A person who breaks social norms often is known as a:

• Conformist

• Deviant

• Rule Follower

• Challenger

Multiple Choice

_______ is a behavior that does not follow the social norms.

• Deviance

• Normalcy

• Social Control

• Conformity

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true concerning deviant behavior?

• Primary deviance usually leads to secondary deviance.
• What is considered deviant in one society may not be considered deviant in another society.
• Deviant behavior is also illegal behavior.
• Adults learn deviant behavior more quickly than children.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about deviance?

• Deviance can only affect society in negative ways.
• Some societies have eliminated deviance altogether.
• It is easy to identify deviant behavior.
• Ideas of deviance can change from one social context to another.

Multiple Choice

It is so important to Chris to appear successful to others that he begins stealing goods from the
warehouse where he works and reselling them to obtain money. What is this an example of?

• ritualism
• conformity
• innovation
• retreatism

Multiple Choice

What theory would say that deviance is most likely when there is a gap between culturally appropriate goals and the legitimate inability to reach those goals? 

• Control Theory
• Strain Theory
• Differential Association Theory
• Labeling Theory

Multiple Choice

Which of the 4 deviant responses outlined in strain theory would describe someone who acts like they want to succeed, but doesn't actually make an effort?

• Rebellion
• Retreatism
• Ritualism
• Innovation

Multiple Choice

Which of the 4 deviant responses outlined in strain theory would describe someone who finds illegal ways to achieve culturally appropriate goals? 

• Rebellion
• Retreatism
• Ritualism
• Innovation

Multiple Choice

Penny parent's are both police officers and upstanding members of their community. However, Penny hangs out with friends who often get into trouble for vandalizing buildings. Penny spends most of her time with her friends because he parents work long overnight shifts. What theory of deviance applies?

• Control Theory

• Differential Association Theory

• Rational Choice Theory

• Lower Class Focal Value Theory

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes Labeling Theory?

• Some acts of deviance are seen as more dangerous than others

• When someone commits a deviant act we apply a label to the region they come from which makes us nervous to travel there

• Individuals who are put into a "category" after committing deviance may be more likely to continue to deviant

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Consider the following statement: “The more you hang around with a group of teenagers who shoplift, the more likely it is that you will become a shoplifter.” Which of the following theories would most strongly agree with this statement?

• control theory
• differential association theory
• labeling theory
• retreatism theory

Multiple Choice

Theory focuses on how individuals come to be imprinted as a deviant

• Labeling Theory
• Control Theory
• Cultural Transmission Theory
• Differential Association Theory

Multiple Choice

Conflict theory states that deviances is:

• The result of weak bonds between the individual and society

• Behavior that people in control of the society see as threatening to their interest.

• Behavior that is performed by someone society has already labelled as deviant.

• The result of gaps between acceptable goals and legitimate means of achievement

Multiple Choice

How does a conflict theorist view crime and deviance?

• Law is meant to keep people safe

• The law is intended to help the oppressed

• The law is in an instrument designed by the poor to maintain control over the rich

• Law is in instrument of oppression designed by powerful to maintain status of privilege