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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| __________ is behavior that is considered so serious that it violates formal laws prohibiting such behavior | Crime |
| Robert Merton's theory that deviance is caused by a failure to achieve the American goal of financial success through the conventional/legal means of working is called __________. | strain theory |
| Criminal activities by people of high social status who commit their crimes in the context of their occupation are called: | "white-collar" crime |
| The sociological definition of social deviance: | resses social context, not individual behavior. |
| Which of the following theories interprets the responses of others as the most significant factor in understanding how deviant behavior is both created and sustained? | Labeling theory |
| To Sutherland (differential association theory), people become criminals when they | are more strongly socialized by others to break the law than to obey it. |
| Which of the following is NOT true about our understanding of deviance? | It does not change over time |
| Which of the following represents a major problem for the UCR's validity? | If the police do not record a report, the FBI does not count it as a crime. |
| According to Emile Durkheim, deviance serves several important functions for society. Which of the following is one of them? | Deviance clarifies social norms and increases conformity. |
| Prostitution, gambling, and drug abuse are best categorized as what type of crime? | Victimless crime |
| _____________ is a system of stratification where there is rigid placement at birth into unequal groups based on one's parents' status, with no chance of moving out of these groups | caste |
| If you start out from business school as an upper-level manager and get laid off 10 years later because of corporate downsizing, you have experienced: | downward intragenerational mobility |
| What is the functionalist explanation of stratification? | Stratification is necessary to motivate people with special intelligence, knowledge, and skills to enter the most important occupations. |
| According to a conflict theorist, the key goal of the ruling class is to prevent the poor from achieving_________, or an awareness of their oppression and the true reasons for it. | class consciousness |
| Which of the following is true about class system | A person's own effort, knowledge, and skills or lack of them often do enable upward movement in class societies. |
| _________________ is the explanation of poverty that views poor people as lazy, unmotivated, and lack ambition. There are even seen as biologically inferior and less intelligent | Functionalist (Individual) |
| Functionalist sociologists rely on measures of ____________ such as education, income, and occupation, to determine someone’s social class | socioeconomic status |
| The ___________ is the government’s measure of official poverty, based on the cost of a minimal diet for a family multiplied by three. | poverty line |
| Which of the following is true about the upper class? | The upper class in the United States consists of up to four percent of the population |
| Unlike the functionalist and conflict views, symbolic interactionism: | examines the differences that stratification makes for people’s lifestyles |
| The social construction of race is a concept that __________. | has no objective reality but rather is what people decide it is. |
| ________ are simplified, mistaken generalizations about people because of their race and/or ethnicity. | Stereotypes |
| Which of the following is NOT a case of institutional discrimination/racism? | A mother wants her child to stay away from a child of a different race. |
| ______________ theory focuses on assimilation of different racial groups. Or in other words, they believe that races should be absorbed into the larger (white) culture and they should adopt the goals of mainstream society through imitating American cultur | functionalist theory |
| In this social-psychological view explaining prejudice, individuals who experience various kinds of problems become frustrated and tend to blame their troubles on groups that are often disliked in the real world. | Scapegoat theory |
| __________ is the shared social, cultural, and historical experiences, stemming from common national or regional backgrounds that make subgroups of a population different from one another. | Ethnicity |
| __________ is a less obvious and more subtle form of racism where people use negative stereotypes to justify or blame racial minorities for their lower economic and social standing | Laissez-faire racism |
| Which of the following is TRUE about prejudice versus discrimination? | Prejudice is an attitude. |
| _________ refers to the preferential treatment of minorities and women in employment and education. | Affirmative action |
| The white owner of an apartment, who dislikes people of color, refuses to rent them the apartment. This is an example of a(n) ____________. | active bigot |
| Liberal feminism ___________. | believes that the equality of women can be achieved within our existing society by passing laws and reforming social, economic, and political institutions |
| Which of the following statements is FALSE: | None of the answers are false |
| Which of the following is NOT true about interpersonal violence? | Men are more likely to be victims of rape and sexual assault.. |
| Men There are three cultural beliefs of explanations of rape: that ____________, that they ask or deserve to be raped, and that men should be sexually assertive or even aggressive. | women enjoy being forced to have sex |
| The term _____________ refers to the invisible barrier facing women as they try to advance in the workplace. | glass ceiling |
| The fact remains that in a(n) ___________ society, men automatically have advantages just because they are men, even if race, social class, and sexual orientation affect the degree to which they are able to enjoy these advantages. | patriarchal |
| ________ is the idea that women’s and men’s jobs may be of roughly equal value and thus deserve the same pay, even though women’s jobs typically pay less than men’s jobs. | Comparable worth |
| __________ refers to the social and cultural differences (and behavioral expectations) a society assigns to people based on their biological sex. | Gender |
| _________ refer to those who dress in the clothing of the opposite sex | Transvestites |
| __________ were formerly called hermaphrodites, but really they are people who are born with one set of reproductive organs and other more ambiguous genitalia of both sexes. | Intersexed individuals |
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