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Test Bank For Sociology Matters 6th edition by Richard Schaefer
Chapter 04
Deviance and Social Control
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Social control refers to
A. justifications for deviant behavior.
B. penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
C. techniques and strategies for preventing deviant behavior in any society.
D. behavior that violates the norms of a group.
Type: D
2. Which term is used to refer to the techniques and strategies for regulating human behavior in any society?
A. social control
B. social promotion
C. socialization
D. techniques of neutralization
Type: D
3. Which group has a role in maintaining social control?
A. the family
B. the government
C. the peer group
D. all of these
Type: I
4. Sanctions are
A. penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
B. justifications for deviant behavior.
C. rules made by a government.
D. a loss of direction when the social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Type: D
5. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm are known as
A. sanctions.
B. values.
C. folkways.
D. techniques of neutralization.
Type: D
6. Which sociological perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not survive if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labeling perspective
Type: P
7. A high school student pierces her tongue and her belly button because three of her best friends have done the same thing. This is an example of
A. stress management.
B. a sanction.
C. conformity.
D. obedience.
Type: C
8. Which term refers to going along with one’s peers (individuals of a person’s own status) who have no special right to direct a person’s behavior?
A. labeling
B. conformity
C. deviance
D. obedience
Type: D
9. Obedience refers to
A. going along with one’s peers, who have no special right to direct that person’s behavior.
B. compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.
C. penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.
D. compliance with religious authorities.
Type: D
10. Which term is used to refer to compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure?
A. norms
B. folkways
C. obedience
D. sanctions
Type: D
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