Sociology Deviance Test Review

What is deviance?

• Change in a society created through social movements as well as through changes in the environment

• The recognized violation of social norms

• The idea that conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those actions

• Interpreting someone's past in light of present deviance

Any act that is labeled as such by those in authority, is prohibited by law, and is punishable by the government

• Recidivism
• Anomie
• Crime
• Rebellion

Which sociological perspective asserts that the richest, most powerful members of society decide who is and who is not considered deviant?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Structuralism

Which of the 4 deviant responses outlined in strain theory would describe someone who drops out of the race for success? 

• Rebellion
• Retreatism
• Ritualism
• Innovation

What theory would say that two people can do the same thing, but one may be considered deviant, and the other will not depending on their social standing in a society?

• Control Theory

• Strain Theory

• Differential Association Theory

• Labeling Theory

Breaking social norms as a lifestyle or identity. 

• Primary Deviance
• Secondary Deviance
• White-Collar Crime
• Social Sanctions

Which perspective stresses that deviance promotes social unity and social change?

• functionalist

• conflict

• symbolic interactionist

• differential association

What are ways to encourage conformity to societal norms and prevent deviance?

• Social Control 
• Degradation ceremony 
• Crime
• Resocialization 

Which sociological perspective studies the positive and negative effects of deviance on society?  

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Structuralism

Which sociological perspective would say that deviance is relative, and that it's based on the individual, not the behavior itself? 

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Structuralism