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How to Spot Deviant Behavior MCQ

The ______ and ______ perspectives of deviance are in opposition to each other.

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Correct Answer: Relativist; absolutist

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Anomie is a state in which ______.

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Correct Answer: Personal and societal standards of behavior fail to align with each other

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Which term describes a compensatory strategy for the presentation of a false identity?

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Correct Answer: Fabrication

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______ is a subtype of the relativist perspective on deviance.

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Correct Answer: Normative

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In order to study deviance, sociologists must determine how to ______.

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Correct Answer: Conceptualize it

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Dana and Malachi are caught coloring on the living room wall by their mother. When asked why they were engaging in this behavior, Dana responds “Malachi made me do it.” What neutralization strategy is Dana using?

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Correct Answer: Denial of responsibility

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______ is a compensatory strategy for managing an invisible stigma.

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Correct Answer: Signaling

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______ are the types of social norms that sociologists use to identify acceptable behavior in a given culture.

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Correct Answer: Folkways, mores, and laws

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Jacob firmly opposes abortion and advocates for the Right to Life organization. He petitions against the existing pro-abortion laws in his state and routinely protests abortion clinics. In this scenario, Jacob exemplifies a ______.

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Correct Answer: Moral entrepreneur

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Which statement is true of the statistical approach on deviance?

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Correct Answer: Deviance is anything that has a low probability or likelihood.

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______ relies on the logic that real consequences exist when people define situations as real.

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Correct Answer: The Thomas theorem

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Tiffany works for a company with a very strict non-fraternization policy. When Tiffany’s boss discovers that she is romantically involved with another employee, Tiffany argues that she should not be reprimanded because her boss has himself had an office relationship. What neutralization strategy is Tiffany using?

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Correct Answer: Condemning the condemner

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Becca’s parents prohibit her from attending a party on Saturday night because she broke curfew last weekend. Under the normative approach, this describes a(n) ______.

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Correct Answer: Informal sanction

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Durkheim's classic study of suicide places some of the blame for these tragedies on______.

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Correct Answer: Social bonds

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In terms of the social construction of deviance, the transition from “badness” to “madness” is referred to as ______.

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Correct Answer: The medicalization of deviance

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Techniques of Neutralization are Strategies deviants use to maintain a Negative self-concept.

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Correct Answer: False

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A mark of disgrace and interactions that communicate that one is disgraced, dishonorable is known as

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Correct Answer: Stigma

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______ approach treats anything that has a low probability or likelihood, as deviant.

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Correct Answer: Statistical

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Rule-breaking behavior that occurs as a result of a deviant label is known as

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Correct Answer: Secondary deviance

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Sanctions are also known as

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Correct Answer: Both of these

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Role Engulfment Occurs when the deviant role takes over people’s other _____ roles

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Correct Answer: Social

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Relativist Perspective is Conditions, and beliefs are deviant only to the extent that cultures regard them as deviant.

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Correct Answer: True

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Rule breaking individuals engage in without a deviant label are called

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Correct Answer: Primary deviance

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Deviance defined as evoking disapproval from others is known as

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Correct Answer: Normative Approach

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An exaggerated, widespread fear regarding the collapse of public morality is called as

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Correct Answer: Moral Panic

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Moral Entrepreneurs are _______ who actively seek to change norms to align with their own moral worldview

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Correct Answer: Both of these

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Medicalization of Deviance is The transition from viewing ____ as attributed to the deviant’s evil character

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Correct Answer: All of above

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The primary status by which others interact with a person is called Master status.

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Correct Answer: True

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Deviance defined as violation of the law is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Legalistic approach

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Those blamed for the collapse of public morality and therefore treated as threats to the social order is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Folk devils

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When individuals attempt to offset the deviance that is ascribed to them or make others more comfortable with their stigma is called Compensatory strategies.

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Correct Answer: True

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A state in which a society’s norms fail to regulate behavior is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Anomie

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States that some behaviors, conditions, and beliefs are inherently, objectively deviant is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Absolutist perspective

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