Law and Society Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Law and Society explores the dynamic relationship between legal systems and the social contexts in which they operate. This course examines how laws are influenced by cultural, economic, and political factors, and how legal institutions both shape and are shaped by social norms, values, and conflicts. Students will analyze case studies and theoretical perspectives to understand the role of law in maintaining social order, addressing inequality, and driving social change. Key topics include access to justice, the intersection of law and identity, the impact of globalization, and the social construction of legal concepts.
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Deviance Conformity and Social Control in Canada 5th Edition by Tami M. Bereska
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Chapter 1: Determining Deviance
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Q1) A century ago, doctors claimed that masturbation caused acne, hairy palms, and insanity. When we consider these claims today, we can see one of the limitations of defining deviance on the basis of harm.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) According to social constructionism, the individual behaviour is the primary concern of sociological research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) According to subjective definitions of deviance, serve as the foundation for determining who/what is "deviant".
A)high-consensus norms
B)low-consensus norms
C)dominant moral codes
D)social contracts
E)criminal laws
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Explaining Deviance: The Act
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Q1) In a recent poll in a Grade 3 class, multiple students indicated that they wanted to be "You-Tubers" when they grow up. This data best supports which of the following research studies?
A)Agnew's research on strain
B)Cohen's research on status frustration
C)Parnby and Sacco's research on fame and celebrity
D)Hunt's research on jamband subculture
E)Jones and Quisenberry's study on self-control
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following theories is a social control theory?
A)differential opportunity theory
B)differential association theory
C)general theory of crime
D)general strain theory
E)neutralization theory
Answer: C
Q3) In the social sciences multiple theories exist simultaneously.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Explaining Deviance: The Perception, Reaction, and Power
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Q1) According to Becker (1963), what happens once a deviant label assumes the level of master status?
A)rejection from the legitimate world and the illegitimate world
B)rejection from the legitimate world and acceptance into the illegitimate world
C)acceptance into the legitimate world and rejection from the illegitimate world
D)acceptance into the legitimate world and the illegitimate world
E)acceptance/rejection is not based on deviance as a master status
Answer: B
Q2) According to symbolic interactionists, the process of role-taking enables us to determine meaning by trying to understand the world from other people's points of view.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) As a result of false consciousness, society's masses believe that they have more freedom than they actually do.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Deviance 20: The Role of the Media
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Q1) Bandura's behaviour research on the impact of observing violence suggested that children's behaviours are influenced by watching violent and aggressive acts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the current research centered on digital piracy. Provide examples.
Q3) Discuss how media can be used both as a tool for crime and creating deviance, as well as a tool that is able to promote change and resistance to deviant labels. Which one do you feel is more powerful?
Q4) Garrett was born in 2008. He spends a lot time surfing YouTube to find videos on things that interest him. He rarely considers looking for information in a book because he can google on any device. Garrett does not remember a time without access to the internet. According to media theorists, Garrett is a _____________.
A)millennial
B)cyber-youth
C)digital pirate
D)digital native
E)cyber native
Q5) Describe the five hacker subculture normative orders.
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Chapter 5: Deviant and Normal Sexuality
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Q1) Which of the following concerns is consistently and conclusively supported by scientific research?
A)the consumption of pornography causes men to sexually victimize women
B)pornography is harmful in that it has a negative impact on attitudes toward women in society
C)pornography has a negative impact on the moral fibre of society
D)pornography interferes with the smooth-running of the social order
E)none of the above concerns is consistently and conclusively supported by scientific research
Q2) It is seen in various cultures that perceptions of deviance surrounding sexuality are influenced by the cultural definitions of how many genders and sexes there are.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Although the role of the State in regulating sexual deviance declined in the early 19<sup>th</sup> century, by the end of the century its role had increased once again, due to the efforts of moral entrepreneurs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: The Troubling and Troubled World of Youth
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Q1) Research that explores the varying interests and motivations of youth gang members emerges from an interactionist rather than a critical perspective.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There are various characteristics of family life that are seen to influence the development of delinquent behaviour in children. Which of the following links is the weakest, according to research?
A)Supervision
B)parental control
C)emotional ties between parent and child
D)parenting style
E)single motherhood
Q3) Which approach to parenting is the least likely to be associated with youth crime?
A)high levels of parental control
B)low levels of affection or nurturance
C)moderate levels of parental control
D)high levels of permissiveness
E)low levels of parental control
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Chapter 7: Looking Deviant: Physical Appearance
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Q1) When comparing 16-30 year olds with and without tattoos on various psychological measures, the only difference was that those with tattoos had lower self-esteem.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Considerable "thinness" is required before someone is socially typed as "too thin", compared to the degree of "fatness" that is required before someone is socially typed as "too fat".
A)True
B)False
Q3) When trying to determine what the current social definitions of beauty would be using a _______ approach to body image.
A)Positivist
B)Contemporary
C)Objective
D)Subjective
E)Medical
Q4) Discuss the informal and formal forms of social control that are used to convey the message of what is 'too fat' or 'too thin' in our society.
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Chapter 8: Mental Disorders
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Q1) Mental disorders are defined as deviant on two dimensions. These are:
A)The illness and the social
B)The social and the institutional
C)The illness and the person
D)The institutional and the individual
E)The social and the individual
Q2) Physical illnesses are more likely to remain undiagnosed in people with mental disorders, in part because their doctors attribute the physical symptoms being experienced to the mental disorder itself.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The World Health Organization's Mental Health Global Action Programme (mhGAP)acts to resist inadequate and insufficient care for people with mental disorders, rather than to resist the stigmatization of mental illness.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Differentiate between the two explanations offered for the greater prevalence of mental illness among the lower classes.
Q5) Briefly discuss 3 social factors that are known to impact mental health status.
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Chapter 9: What Do You Believe Religion, Science, and Deviance
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Q1) In the 21st century, a study released findings to the public that increasing rates of autism were related to vaccinations. This study caused a moral panic across the world as medical professionals and parents sought to determine if this relationship was true. This study was later discovered to have elements of scientific misconduct. The fact that this deviance was discovered supports Ben-Yehuda's theory on examining science for deviance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to bad apple theory, deviance in science exists because A)the structure within which scientists work encourages deviance
B)techniques of neutralization enable deviant scientists to justify their behavior
C)of low levels of self-control
D)of a gap between accepted goals and legitimate means of achieving those goals.
E)of similar reasons that people commit crimes-personality factors, psychological disturbance, and free choice.
Q3) Describe the role of corporatization in scientific misconduct
Q4) Apply the theoretical ideas of the moral panic with the experience of cults in contemporary society. How do cults become constructed? Can you provide examples?
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Chapter 10: The Deviance Dance Continues
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Q1) By the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, child abuse was illegal in all nations in the world.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is an example of preventative, formal social control?
A)teaching your children to "just say no" to drugs
B)your physician writes you a prescription for anti-depressants
C)a class that teachers junior-high children about safer sex
D)taking away your teenager's car keys for one week when she misses her curfew one night
E)weighing yourself once a week to ensure that you haven't gained any weight
Q3) During election time, one political party creates a series of radio announcements that discredit their opponent by emphasizing a support for the legalization of marijuana. The claim is that this candidate is morally unreliable by supporting this issue. This is an example of:
A)The media as moral entrepreneur
B)The media as a tool
C)The government as moral entrepreneur
D)The government as a tool
E)Both B and C
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