WorksheetsDeviance
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 16mins
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
It is so important to Taylor 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
Which of the following is an example of a formal social sanction?
bullying someone during lunch at school
receiving detention for being late to school
gossiping about someone to your best friend
giving a handshake to an adult
Which of the following is true about deviance?
Deviance can only affect society in negative ways.
Some societies have eliminated deviance altogether.
All cultures define deviant behavior in the same way.
Ideas of deviance can change based on culture and circumstances.
Mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society. When a person is labeled as deviant they are
rewarded
criminalized
stigmatized
ignored
Which of the 4 deviant responses outlined in Merton's Strain theory would describe someone who finds illegal ways to achieve culturally appropriate goals?
Rebellion
Retreatism
Ritualism
Innovation
Which of the 4 deviant responses outlined in Merton's Strain theory would describe someone who drops out of the race for success?
Rebellion
Retreatism
Ritualism
Innovation
Which of the 4 deviant responses outlined in Merton's Strain theory would describe someone who rejects the goals and means of society and usually creates their own?
Rebellion
Retreatism
Ritualism
Innovation
Which theory would say that two people can do the same thing, but one person may be considered deviant, and the other person will not depend on their social standing in society? (like in saints and roughnecks)
Conflict Theory (Karl Marx)
Merton's Strain Theory
Functionalist theory
Symbolic Interaction/Labeling Theory
Behaviors that violate a group or culture's social norms
Anomie
Deviance
Stigma
Victim Discounting
Which of the following words can be considered an example of a stigma?
cheater
hero
doctor
studious
Which of the following is true concerning deviant behavior?
Primary deviance usually leads to secondary deviance.
What is considered deviant in one society or environment may not be considered deviant in another society/environment.
Deviant behavior is also illegal behavior.
Adults learn deviant behavior more quickly than children.
What does William Chambliss's study of the Saints and the Roughnecks suggest?
Labels are easy to get rid of ---once a person gets away from the group doing the labeling.
People often live up to the labels that society gives them.
People most often rebel against the labels given them and lead a completely different life.
Which perspective stresses that deviance clarifies norms, provides an outlet for people, and can promote social change?
functionalist
conflict
symbolic interactionist
differential association
According to Merton's strain theory, who gives up pursuit of success by abusing alcohol or drugs?
rebels
retreatists
neurotics
ritualists
Asch's experiments showed that
people are deviant when they feel goals are out of reach
people will tend to conform to the group, even if the group is wrong
people tend to obey authority, especially if the authority offers to take responsibility for actions
people will act more and more like the "label" they are giving
_______ is a behavior that does not follow the social norms.
Deviance
Normalcy
Social Control
Conformity
The mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society?
labeling
stereotype
stigma
magma
How does primary deviance differ from secondary deviance?
Primary deviance derives from primary groups.
Secondary deviance is not as important as primary deviance.
In primary deviance people identify with deviant behavior.
Primary deviance is deviant behavior that only happens once in a while.
