Sociology of Deviance Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Sociology of Deviance explores the social processes and structures that define, create, and respond to deviant behavior in society. This course examines how norms are established and negotiated, theories explaining why individuals or groups engage in deviant acts, and the consequences of labeling and stigmatization. Students investigate various forms of deviance, including crime, substance use, mental illness, and nonconformity, while considering the influence of culture, power, and inequality. The course also explores the impact of social institutions such as family, education, and the criminal justice system in shaping perceptions of deviance and strategies of social control.
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Social Problems 13th Edition by D. Stanley Eitzen
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Chapter 1: The Sociological Approach to Social Problems
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Q1) Researchers who use __________ collect information about the same persons over many years.
A) longitudinal surveys
B) experiments
C) participant observation
D) public opinion polls
Answer: A
Q2) There is __________ among sociologists as to what constitutes a social problem.
Answer: disagreement
Q3) The assumption by the members of a group that the culture of some other group is not only inferior,but also deficient,is called __________.
A) system-blame
B) person-blame
C) cultural deprivation
D) sociological imagination
Answer: C
Q4) A __________ is a representative part of a population that sociologists use to answer sociological questions.
Answer: sample
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Chapter 2 Wealth and Power: The Bias of the System
AMultiple-Choice
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Q1) According to the authors of the text,capitalism will,if unhindered by government regulation,result in individual self-fulfillment and general material progress for all of society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following represents an example of the argument that the powerless bear the burden of U.S.government policy?
A) Only 10 percent of college-aged men were drafted in the Vietnam War.
B) Subsidies to social services for the poor were increased during the 2007 recession.
C) Rebuilding priority was given to the poor after Hurricane Katrina.
D) Government subsidies are overwhelmingly given to small businesses.
Answer: A
Q3) How have super-PACs corrupted democracy?
Answer: Answer :NOT ANSWER
Q4) The __________ are the people who occupy the most influential roles in society.
Answer: power elite
Q5) __________ is the nation with the most millionaires. Answer: United States
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Chapter 3: World Population and Global Inequality
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Q1) The chances throughout one's life cycle to live and experience the good things in life are called __________.
A) absolute poverty lifestyles
B) demographic transitions
C) lifestyles
D) life chances
Answer: D
Q2) According to the World Bank,1.4 billion of the world's people live on less than __________a day.
A) 10 cents
B) a half a dollar
C) 75 cents
D) $1.25
Answer: B
Q3) Just over half of the world's population now lives in __________ areas.
Answer: urban
Q4) The number of people on this planet constitutes a potential future calamity. A)True
B)False
Answer: TRUE
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Chapter 4: Threats to the Environment
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Q1) The manufacturing industry contributes to air pollution,and passenger cars
__________.
A) have been seen as the only remedy to the issue
B) have been designed not to emit carbon dioxide
C) are permitted by law to emit more pollutants than the manufacturing industry
D) also emit dangerous gases into the environment
Q2) The policy of __________ is visible when companies manufacture goods and then make changes to market new items for continued consumption.
Q3) The greenhouse effect occurs when__________.
A) plant decomposition takes place
B) the humidity from rainwater rises to the atmosphere
C) gases accumulate in the atmosphere and act as a glass roof
D) chlorofluorocarbons are absorbed by plants
Q4) Although there is often political division between the Democrats and Republicans,they all agree on the reasons for global climate change.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The United States discards __________ percent of the world's resources.
Q6) Discuss the relationship between environmental racism and U.S.capitalism.
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Chapter 5 Demographic Changes in the United States: The
Browning and Graying of Society
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Q1) A healthcare facility that is focused on meeting the needs of residents rather than the needs of the institution is exhibiting __________.
A) disengagement
B) therapeutic care
C) custodial care
D) ageism
Q2) Economically advantaged elderly are __________ their less-well-to-do cohorts to be institutionalized.
A) not as likely as B) as likely as
C) somewhat more likely than D) much more likely than
Q3) Identify the conditions that result from the "sex ratio" among the elderly and discuss the implications of each.
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Q4) Identify and describe the reasons why Social Security is considered to be a regressive tax.
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Q5) How are immigration and agency related?
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Chapter 6 Problems of Place: Urban Suburban and Rural
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Q1) The healthcare problems associated with the disinvestment in urban centers include which of the following?
A) More people are able to afford quality treatment.
B) More city residents are unable to find quality healthcare.
C) The proportion of hospitals there that are owned by for-profits has increased.
D) Urban areas are some of the healthiest places in the United States.
Q2) Suburbanization was __________.
A) a naturally occurring event
B) discouraged by the federal government
C) encouraged by the federal government
D) not profiting developers
Q3) One of the advantages the rural poor have over the urban poor is they __________.
A) save money by riding horses instead of cars
B) have the ability to grow their own food
C) have higher wages for the same work
D) have more access to social services
Q4) According to studies,what role does race play in getting mortgages and other loans from banks?
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Chapter 7: Poverty
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Q1) __________ are legal tax loopholes that allow the affluent to escape paying certain taxes and receive a subsidy.
A) Regressive taxes
B) Tax expenditures
C) Welfare taxes
D) Poverty thresholds
Q2) The "hidden welfare system" refers to government aid that goes to the non-poor in the form of __________.
A) tax increases on wealthy individuals
B) direct subsidies to corporations
C) low-cost credit to people below the poverty line
D) increased scrutiny and oversight for corporate lending
Q3) What are the causes and social implications of the feminization of poverty?
Q4) Almost 10 percent of Non-Hispanic Whites are in poverty.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is the Jensen-Herrnstein-Murray thesis for explaining poverty? Identify the critiques of this perspective. Ideal
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Chapter 8: Racial and Ethnic Inequality
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Q1) The Latino/a experience is uniformly the same for all.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mark,who is African American,was recently pulled over by the police.When he asked why he was stopped,the officer did not say anything specifically and Mark did not think he was committing a violation.Mark suspects he was being profiled and pulled over for
A) speeding
B) driving while Black
C) drunk driving
D) swerving
Q3) The idea that race no longer matters in explaining inequality or policymaking because racism has been overcome is called __________.
A) color blindness
B) individual racism
C) institutional racism
D) nativism
Q4) The __________ theory,proposed by Omi and Winant,asserts that race is the factor which determines and structures life in the United States.
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Chapter 9: Gender Inequality
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Q1) The U.S.labor force has changed such that women's rate of participation has
A) increased dramatically
B) decreased dramatically
C) increased slightly
D) decreased to almost zero
Q2) Compared to other industrialized nations,the United States ranks highest in terms of granting women access to political leadership roles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following characterizes women's status in the civilian labor force?
A) African American women have been the major beneficiaries of new opportunities.
B) White women have begun to replace African American women in female-dominated jobs.
C) White women's progress has been related to federal affirmative action guidelines.
D) There has been little change in women's status in the labor force over the last 50 years.
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Chapter 10: Sexual Orientation
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Q1) The Boy Scouts of America participate in __________ oppression by restricting access to the organization by gays and lesbians.
Q2) What percentage of lesbian,gay,bisexual,or transgendered youth do not feel safe in school?
A) 100
B) Over 60
C) About 42
D) About 15
Q3) __________ is the organization that works to promote the accurate depiction of gays in television,film,and advertising.
Q4) From 1982 to 1992,about __________ people were dishonorably discharged from the military for being lesbian or gay.
A) 14,000
B) 28,000
C) 50,000
D) 71,000
Q5) No religious organization condones gay marriage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Disability and Ableism
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Q1) According to the social model of disability,the consequence of having the power to define who will be classified as disabled results in the __________of the disabled.
A) empowerment
B) marginalization
C) normalization
D) integration
Q2) Marek points to the fact that when someone is disabled the existence of his/her condition is undeniable as evidence for his argument that disability is primarily an individual,medical issue.Marek's argument relies on the notion of disability as a(n)__________.
A) matrix of domination
B) hegemonic structure
C) ontological truth
D) social discrimination
Q3) What promotes the likelihood that people with disabilities may have difficulty finding romantic and sexual partners?
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Q4) Why do the authors of the text consider abortion a "thorny" issue in the context of disability?
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Chapter 12: Crime and Justice
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Q1) Discuss how the fact that the law is defined by the powerful in society influences the way that violence is viewed.
Q2) __________ sentencing subordinates judicial discretion to the punitive,get-tough policies that have become popular with voters.
A) Discretionary
B) Mandatory
C) Indeterminate
D) Judicial
Q3) The fact that some activities are legal in one society and not legal in another and that what is and is not legal changes over time within the same society is evidence that there is not a universal standard for criminal behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The __________ has the highest proportion of its citizens jailed at any time of any country.
Q5) Failing to classify the systematically lower life spans for minorities as a crime illustrates the importance of the interests of the __________ class in defining crime.
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Chapter 13: Drugs
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Q1) Legalizing marijuana but regulating its use has which of the following benefits?
A) It would decrease the product's conformity to standards of purity and safety.
B) It would dry up the need for vast criminal networks that distribute drugs.
C) Prison space and police activities could be used to deter heavy marijuana use.
D) It would reduce marijuana use.
Q2) The drugs used to treat __________ are the most often stolen prescriptions and the most abused drugs in the United States today.
A) ADHD
B) cancer
C) heart disease
D) glaucoma
Q3) Amphetamines are __________ drugs that are sometimes used by athletes.
Q4) Julie has recently been in a car accident and is taking __________ drugs to help her heal some nerve damaged she suffered as a result.
A) Schedule 1
B) additive
C) restorative
D) narcotic
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Chapter 14: The Economy and Work
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Q1) John works on an assembly line in a big warehouse for a manager where he has little control over the work he does or the products he produces.John is at a high risk for
A) alienation
B) Taylorism
C) gentrification
D) downward social mobility
Q2) Jerica's factory recently moved out of the United States to a country with cheaper labor where she will produce the same products at a lower cost in a practice known as
A) offshoring
B) outsourcing
C) globalization
D) alienation
Q3) Companies use lie detector tests and drug tests to increase their __________ over workers.
Q4) Historically,__________ have organized strikes,work slowdowns,and public relations campaigns to improve working conditions.
Q5) __________ believed an "invisible hand" would control the marketplace.
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Chapter 15: Families
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Q1) __________ is a myth about the institution of the family.
A) That the families of the past were largely unstable and full of conflict
B) That the breakdown of the family is not related to any of our current social problems
C) The family experience as a unified one with all members experiencing it the same
D) The dominance of the extended family living cohesively under one roof
Q2) A family is __________.
A) a construct of meanings and relationships
B) any collection of people
C) a group that lives in the same home
D) a relatively modern social institution
Q3) Unemployment and financial instability put __________ at risk of abuse.
A) parents
B) women
C) men
D) children
Q4) Approximately __________ percent of divorcing couples have minor children.
Q5) Since 1970,the percentage of all U.S.children living with a single parent has increased __________ percent.
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Chapter 16: Education
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Q1) Tracking __________.
A) is seen as universally positive
B) positively affects self-esteem
C) correlates with the social stratification system
D) is unrelated to the social class system
Q2) Tracking is a way of monitoring a child's academic performance to ensure that he or she is performing up to standard.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By making education entirely free to all children,communities could reduce dropout rates among the poor.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the claim that American education is the "great equalizer." Is it now? Has it ever been? Does it need to be?
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Q5) __________ have been shown to be capable of eliminating the learning gap between middle-class and lower-class children at a very young age.
Q6) In the past,the school year was developed around the __________ calendar.
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Chapter 17: The Healthcare System
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Q1) In 1996,for the first time since the epidemic began in the United States,the number of people diagnosed with __________ declined from the previous year.
Q2) Josh grew up in an upper-class family with regular doctor visits and access to health resources like exercise equipment and nutritionists.He understands the things he needs to do to live a healthy lifestyle.Josh's situation illustrates __________.
A) the greater access to positive health habits the wealthy have
B) how much more Josh cares about his health than other people
C) the priority the wealthy put on healthcare
D) the importance of government intervention in healthcare
Q3) According to the World Health Organization,the health system of the United States is ranked __________ in "fairness" among 191 countries in the world.
A) first
B) last
C) thirty-seventh
D) fifty-fourth
Q4) Discuss and offer evidence to disprove the common belief that the poor are accountable for their own health deficiencies.
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Q1) Acts of terrorism are acts intended to cause serious harm to noncombatants in order to intimidate a population or call attention to a cause.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Tea Party activists are/were generally opposed to President __________.
Q3) The Geneva conventions date back to __________.
A) 1532
B) 1697
C) 1864
D) 1931
Q4) Globalization lessens the threat of international terrorism.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1995 Timothy McVeigh used a bomb to destroy a federal building in Oklahoma City,killing 168 people.This was an act of __________.
A) preemptive war
B) preventive war
C) domestic terrorism
D) international terrorism
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Chapter 19: Progressive Plan to Solve Social Problems
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Q1) Why do the authors of the text call for a particular focus on children?
Q2) Give an example of a way in which you,a friend,or a family member has demonstrated human agency.
Q3) Because of how societies are organized,even if some of the arrangements result in social problems,they can't be changed to reduce or eliminate those problems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Just before the last election cycle the members of a state house of representatives got together and redrew the boundaries for various voting districts.The group that held power at the time consistently blocked efforts to draw boundaries favorable to the minority party and instead divided the state in a way that would ensure them the most votes in a process known as __________.
A) a plutocracy
B) devolution
C) gerrymandering
D) unionizing
Q5) Discuss the significance of the 1997 Teamster strike against UPS.
Q6) __________ constrains what we do,but it does not determine what we do.
Q7) Discuss the relationship of social policy and social problems.
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