Sociologists believe that no behavior is ____?
A. Without a deal of grate variation
B. inherently deviant
C. totally in keeping with tradition
D. Without a corresponding judgment
E. Completely irrelevant
Peer approval of your actions would be a good example of ____?
A. age-specific support
B. informal social control
C. internalization of norms
D. formal social control
E. positivism
The of “who defines deviance” has principally been addressed by what sociological theory ?
A. Differential Association
B. Conflict
C. Positivism
D. Social Control
E. Functionalism
Conflict theory’s primary suggestion for reducing crime and deviance involves the ______?
A. Substantial reduction of economic inequality
B. Subordination of the agents of social control
C. redefinition of acts that are currently defined as criminal
D. amelioration of social welfare activities
E. repression of lower-class gang activities
Psychological positivism stresses the key role that _______ plays in the development of conformist of criminal belief systems?
A. pre-natal nutrition
B. hormones
C. genetic abnormalities
D. early childhood
E. adolescence
According to Strain theory, ____ are those individuals who have traditional success goals but substitute deviant means by which to achieve them ?
A. ritualists
B. ret realists
C. rebels
D. innovators
E. conformists
What sociological theory of crime and deviance emphasizes sub-cultural belief systems as a major contributor to crime ?
A. Social Control theory
B. Anomie theory
C. Lower Class Focal Value theory
D. Social Process theory
E. Strain theory
Social Control theory attempts to explain ______?
A. conformity
B. corporate crime
C. Psychologically-based crime
D. lower-class crime
E. white-collar crime
Labelling theory came into prominence during which decade of the twentieth century ?
A. 1950s
B. 1980s
C. 1940s
D. 1960s
E. 1970s
Labelling theory encourages ________ as a way to completely avoid the stigmatization process?
A. restitution
B. legalization
C. radical non-intervention
D. decriminalization
E. retribution
