WorksheetsSociology- Deviance
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 33mins
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
After a Chinese man was severely beaten by authorities on a United Airlines flight, the media began to circulate stories about this man’s past as a way of justifying the crime committed against him. What is this an example of?
Labeling Theory
Secondary Deviance
Victim Discounting
Criminal Precedence
Being shushed by your classmates is an example of which type of sanction?
Positive Formal
Positive Informal
Negative Formal
Negative Informal
Theory that views deviance as a learned behavior transmitted through interaction with others
Cultural Transmission Theory
Differential Association
Control Theory
Strain Theory
Mark of social disgrace that sets the deviant apart from the rest of society
Stigma
Anomie
Racial Profiling
Deviance
Repeated criminal behavior
Social Stratification
Recidivism
Social Class
Social Inequality
Negative social reactions to deviance.
negative sanctions
positive sanctions
negative reinforcement
positive reinforcement
Affirmative reactions to deviance, usually in response to conformity.
negative sanctions
positive sanctions
negative reinforcement
positive reinforcement
Which approach to crime attempts to resocialize prisoners?
Which theory best fits the following: By losing his parents, Bruce Wayne lost positive stimuli and gained negative stimuli. By not having coping mechanisms, he would later become a delinquent and do something that may be criminal.
Strain Theory
Cognitive Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Behaviorist Theory
Dressing in a dinosaur costume to school would be an example of:
Deviance
Which of the following, as part of strain theory, involves a rejection of society's goals and attempts to create a new society?
Rebellion
Retreatism
Conformity
Innovation
Which theory would prescribe the idea that the closer the relationship to someone and the more often you see that person behave deviantly, the more likely one is to perform deviant acts?
Labeling Theory
Social Learning Theory
Differential Association Theory
Control Theory
Which sociological theory of deviance best fits the following?
Arthur also faces financial difficulties as he struggles to make ends meet and pay for his medication. The strains that Arthur is experiencing are consistent with Agnew's general strain theory, which postulates that people who are under stress may turn to criminal behavior as a means of coping with their circumstances.
Strain theory
Which of Merton's Differential strain theory does the Joker fit?
People who reject the means and goals of society
People who are unable to accomplish their goals due to a lack of resources may resort to criminal behavior as a means of coping with their environment.
People who see the means but not the goals of society
People who agree to the norms and the socially acceptable
According to Merton's Strain Theory, what is CONFORMITY?
A parking officer who gives out hundreds of tickets a night to meet a quota but secretly hates that he has to give out parking tickets rather than do something to help people.
Ritualism
Retreatism
Conformity
Rebellion
Deviance involving occasional breaking of norms that is not a normal part of a person's lifestyle or self-concept
Primary deviance
Normal deviance
Tertiary deviance
Secondary deviance
