Sociology Pop Culture to Social Structure 3rd Edition By Brym – Test Bank

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Sociology Pop Culture to Social Structure 3rd Edition By Brym – Test Bank

Chapter 5   Deviance, Crime, and Social Control

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Student Learning Objectives

After reading Chapter 5, students should be able to:

1. Express how people define deviance and crime differently in different times and places.

1. Interpret differences in crime rates over time and between different population categories.

1. Compare how deviance was treated in the past with how it is treated today.

1. Explain why punishment for criminal acts has become harsher in the United States in recent decades.

1. Explain why fear of crime is increasing in the United States.

1. Describe the growing movement for criminal rehabilitation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Tukano Indians of Brazil greet people by asking if they have bathed today. The Yanomamo rubbed their hands over the body of an anthropologist when they first met. In Korea, beckoning with the index finger is only done with cats and dogs. These are examples used in the text to demonstrate that:

a. it is impossible to understand the customs of others.

b. deviance is relative.

c. other countries views animals differently than we do in the U.S.

d. people in some other countries lack manners.

e. saying hello is a cultural universal.

ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 95 SOURCE: modified LO: 1

1. A norm stipulated and enforced by government bodies is called a(n):

a. sanction

b. tariff

c. law

d. authorization

e. mandate

ANS: cTYPE: conceptualPG: 95SOURCE: pickupLO: 1

1. Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both considered deviant and criminal in their lifetimes but are not considered deviant and criminal today. This illustrates that definitions of deviance and crime

a. remain constant.

b. change over time.

c. are dependent on the issue at stake.

d. are always political.

e. only apply to minority group members.

ANS: b TYPE: applied PG: 96 SOURCE: pickup LO: 1

1. From a sociological standpoint

a. all deviance is crime.

b. definitions of crime and deviance are universally the same.

c. everyone is a criminal.

d. everyone is deviant in one social context or another.

e. sociologists have never been considered deviant.

ANS: d TYPE: conceptual PG: 95 SOURCE: modified LO: 1

1. The sociological term for non-normative behavior that departs from expected behavior is _____.

a. sanctions

b. crime

c. deviance

d. sociopathology

e. serendipity

ANS: c TYPE: conceptual PG: 95 SOURCE: modified LO: 1

1. According to the text, deviance and crime

a. are easy to define

b. are defined differently in different historical periods

c. are easy to understand because people always act in the same ways

d. are only the same thing in Western societies.

e. are always the same.

ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 96 SOURCE: pickup LO: 1

1. Whether a particular act is considered deviant or not depends upon the _____ definition of the behavior.

a. criminal

b. moral

c. ethical

d. social

e. legal

ANS: d TYPE: conceptual PG: 95 SOURCE: pickup LO: 1

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