Sociology of Deviance Test Questions
Course Introduction
The Sociology of Deviance explores the social processes and structures that define certain behaviors, beliefs, or individuals as "deviant" within a society. This course examines theories of deviance, including functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and labeling perspectives, to understand how norms are established, enforced, and challenged. Students analyze how social power, inequality, and cultural differences influence what is considered deviant, as well as the impact of deviance on individuals and communities. Case studies and contemporary examples are used to investigate topics such as crime, mental illness, substance use, sexual behavior, and subcultures, fostering critical thinking about conformity, social control, and social change.
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Introduction to Social Problems 10th Edition by Thomas J. Sullivan
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Chapter 1: Approaches to the Study of Social Problems
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Q1) ________ refers to legitimate power that is obeyed because people believe it is right and proper that they obey.
A)Causality
B)Autocracy
C)Confederacy
D)Authority
Answer: D
Q2) ________ is the ability of one group to realize its will,even in the face of resistance from other groups.
A)Fecundity
B)Power
C)Androgyny
D)Pluralism
Answer: B
Q3) The key role of theories is to ________.
A)negate one's belief in religion
B)explain why something occurred
C)judge people's behaviors
D)set norms on which a society should be based
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Concentration of Power: Economic and Political Institutions
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Q1) A ________ is a business enterprise that is owned by stockholders,most of whom are not involved in running the daily affairs of the business.
A)proprietorship
B)corporation
C)law firm
D)social institution
Answer: B
Q2) A(n)________ is a corporation that owns other companies in fields quite different from that of the parent company.
A)anomie
B)in-group
C)monopsony
D)conglomerate
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Family-Related Problems
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Q1) Which of the following is a similarity between serial monogamy and polygamy?
A)Both allow a person to have more than one spouse in their entire lifetime.
B)Both are legal in the United States.
C)Both deny women the right to remarry,while men are allowed to remarry.
D)Both allow a person to have multiple spouses at the same time.
Answer: A
Q2) One of the reasons for the declining role of parents in deciding their children's marriage is a(n)________.
A)decreasing importance for kinship in modern societies
B)decreasing faith in religion
C)decreasing economic independence of children
D)increasing importance for the family as a social institution
Answer: A
Q3) Nuclear families serve the interests of capitalist economic institutions because they
A)maximize the number of consumption-oriented units in society
B)stress the importance of family values over that of individual values
C)are often male dominated
D)emphasize common ownership of material goods
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Health and Illness
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Q1) What are the problems resulting from the free market and profit-making nature of the U.S.health-care system?
Q2) Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)differ from other health-care providers in that HMOs ________.
A)employ greater utilization of preventive health care
B)have higher hospitalization rates and perform more unnecessary surgeries
C)are less capable of controlling costs of health-care decisions of doctors and patients
D)are more expensive and provide more specialized care to patients
Q3) Proprietary hospitals differ from the earlier form of hospitals in the United States in that proprietary hospitals ________.
A)are most likely to be run by religious or charitable organizations
B)are more profit oriented and their decisions are based largely on profit margins
C)are more accountable to their patients and the communities they serve
D)give more power to the people in their community to decide their policies and decisions
Q4) What are some of the negative effects of industrialization on human health?
Q5) When is a self-fulfilling prophecy most likely to occur?
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Chapter 5: Education, Science, and Technology
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Q1) Sarah,a student belonging to a minority community,is not in favor of the school integration policies formulated by the U.S.government.She is most likely to believe that
A)minorities will be placed in curriculum tracks heavily populated by whites
B)the quality of education in majority white schools is not up to the expectations of the minorities
C)crime and violence are more serious problems in majority white schools than in schools heavily populated by minorities
D)a majority of the white schools are not necessarily the best environment for minority students
Q2) ________ refers to a technology that is limited in size,decentralized,and responsive to human values and needs.
A)Indigenous technology
B)Appropriate technology
C)Capital-intensive technology
D)Autonomous technology
Q3) What is the viewpoint of conflict theorists about the race for higher educational credentials?
Q4) What are the differences between charter schools and public schools?
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Chapter 6: Poverty
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Q1) The relative definition of poverty states that ________.
A)the poor in the United States are worse off today than they were 55 years ago
B)the poor in the United States are identified as those who are permanently and unwillingly poor
C)poverty has become less chronic
D)poverty has become less dysfunctional
Q2) Which of the following is a true statement about social insurance programs?
A)They are exclusively meant to assist the uninsured poor.
B)There is no minimum income to be eligible for these programs.
C)People cannot obtain outside insurance if they are part of a social insurance program.
D)They are specifically started for college students who are temporarily and willingly poor.
Q3) ________ has linked homelessness with the trends in health-care institutions of the United States.
A)The decline in chronicity of mental illness
B)The process of deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill
C)The process of cyclically reimbursing the mentally ill
D)The decline in demand for mental hospital beds
Q4) Give a possible devastating consequence of temporary unemployment.
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Chapter 7: Race and Ethnic Relations
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Q1) What was the rationale behind affirmative action,and how did it impact schools and employers?
Q2) Minority groups in the country of Ozwa are always discriminated against and treated with hostility.In order for them to be treated equally in society,they are forced to learn the practices of the major community of Ozwa and adapt to the mainstream.By doing so,they stand to lose their cultural identity and are absorbed into the mainstream.This process of getting absorbed into the dominant group is known as ________.
A)pluralism
B)recidivism
C)ethnocentrism
D)assimilation
Q3) ________ are rigid and oversimplified images in which each element or person in a category is assumed to possess all the characteristics associated with that category.
A)Analogies
B)Prejudices
C)Stereotypes
D)Anomies
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Chapter 8: Gender,Sexual Orientation, and Social Inequality
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Q1) Colin,a research scientist,primarily focuses his research on the relationship between genetic inheritance and sexual orientation.He is most likely to agree with the fact that
A)genetic inheritance directly translates into sexual orientation
B)sexual orientation of a person is entirely dependent on genetic inheritance
C)twins sharing the same genetic material are likely to be gay
D)adopted brothers sharing no genetic material are most likely to be gay
Q2) According to sociologists,which of the following is used as a gender-specific term?
A)male
B)masculine
C)female
D)childish
Q3) Six-year-old Kevin enjoys building different types of buildings with his building block set.In the given example,Kevin is performing a(n)________.
A)instrumental task
B)expressive task
C)interactive task
D)reflective task
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Chapter 9: Age and Social Inequality
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Q1) ________ were much more important in preindustrial societies than they are at present.
A)Technological advances
B)Business relationships
C)Kinship ties
D)Lucrative jobs
Q2) What measures did the U.S.government take to alleviate the problem of some elderly having little or no income from personal retirement pensions?
Q3) Which of the following is true of men and women who work in industrial societies?
A)They are encouraged to leave the workforce long before they die.
B)They are encouraged to leave the workforce only when they are incapable of working.
C)They need limited education and training to cope with the technological changes.
D)They undergo the transition from childhood to adulthood at a very early age.
Q4) Explain the reasons for poor conditions in nursing homes.
Q5) How do children suffer because of divorce?
Q6) What are the views of the opponents of age-based policies for receiving benefits?
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Chapter 10: Crime and Delinquency
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Q1) Define anomie.How does the anomie theory approach crime and delinquency?
Q2) Which of the following is a Part I offense?
A)vandalism
B)gambling
C)robbery
D)fraud
Q3) Which of the following is true of plea bargaining?
A)It is legally binding.
B)It is involved in only a negligible number of convictions for criminal offenses.
C)It places due process of law above local politics and community norms.
D)It results in the dropping of some charges or the granting of a more lenient sentence.
Q4) Which of the following is true of the labeling theory?
A)It focuses on the inconsistencies and contradictions in the social systems.
B)It is based on the conflict perspective of crime and delinquency.
C)It attempts to explain primary deviance.
D)It concentrates on secondary or career deviance.
Q5) What are the possible explanations for the higher involvement in crime by teens and young adults?
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Chapter 11: Alcohol and Other Drugs
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Q1) ________ theories claim that drug abuse is a consequence of flaws or weaknesses in people's personalities.
A)Functionalist
B)Biological
C)Sociological
D)Psychodynamic
Q2) What are the symptoms associated with alcohol withdrawal?
Q3) What role does genetics play in turning a person into an alcoholic?
Q4) Tony,unable to sleep,takes a tranquilizer along with barbiturates.The combined action of the drugs prove to be fatal and kill him.This condition resulting from the combination of two depressants taken at a time is known as _________.
A)potentiation
B)chipping
C)tolerance
D)dependence
Q5) What are the six major classes of drugs that are abused in the United States?
Q6) What consequences did the Eighteenth Amendment pose when it took effect in 1920?
Q7) What are drug maintenance programs?
Q8) How did drug entrepreneurs overcome the limited use of cocaine?
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Chapter 12: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Trade
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Q1) Rachel,a streetwalker,feels secure working under a pimp,while her friend Julie feels secure working as an independent escort,arranging meetings with customers through the Internet.Which of the following points is most likely to result in a disagreement between Rachel and Julie?
A)It is easier to avoid contact with the police by walking the streets in comparison to online prostitution.
B)Online prostitution shields prostitutes from customers who force them to do things they would prefer not to do.
C)Online prostitutes have the same level of protection as prostitutes working for a pimp.
D)It is safer to work under pimps because they shield prostitutes from customers who physically assault them.
Q2) What are the findings of the research conducted by Edward Donnerstein and his colleagues about the relationship between pornography and sexual behavior?
Q3) Why are some people in favor of legalizing prostitution?
Q4) What are the factors that accounted for a change in women's sexual behavior?
Q5) What is Internet prostitution? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
Q6) Explain the typical behavior of crack-addicted women in crack houses.
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Chapter 13: Population Growth and Urbanization
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Q1) What are ghettos? Where are they generally concentrated in the U.S.cities?
Q2) Which of the following is true of the transitional stage of demographic transition?
A)It is characterized by high birthrates and high death rates,resulting in a population that grows slowly,if at all.
B)The falling death rates occur because of improvements in lifestyle resulting from industrial development.
C)The decline in the birthrate was a response to the impact of industrialization on cultural values regarding childbearing.
D)It is characterized by low birthrates and low death rates,resulting in a roughly stable population with little growth.
Q3) A similarity between the preindustrial stage and the postindustrial stage of demographic transition is that ________.
A)the availability of better and more food helped people resist infectious diseases and reduced infant mortality
B)people were encouraged to have large families so the birthrate stayed high
C)the improvement in lifestyle resulted in falling death rates
D)it resulted in a roughly stable population that grew slowly
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Chapter 14: Environmental Problems
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Q1) Which of the following is a disadvantage of achieving high levels of affluence?
A)People have to consume the earth's resources and pollute its environment.
B)People have to stop using nuclear energy in order to save the environment.
C)Only a few people will have access to material goods for achieving high levels of affluence.
D)Less-developed nations will have to stop industrializing,which can adversely impact world economy.
Q2) Davis and Frank are environmental scientists discussing the factors that have led to the environmental problems faced by the world today.They are most likely to agree with the fact that ________.
A)chlorofluorocarbons in aerosol cans and refrigeration units contribute to ozone depletion
B)gases released into the earth's atmosphere by burning fossil fuels cause temperatures to dip
C)crude oil is the longest-lasting nonrenewable energy source
D)desertification leads to a decline in oxygen levels in water bodies
Q3) Why is it difficult to permanently dispose nuclear wastes?
Q4) How do environmental partnerships help in attacking environmental problems?
Q5) What are some of the consequences of global warming?
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Chapter 15: Violence, War, and Terrorism
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Q1) A preemptive war is one that ________.
A)involves an organized action by some group to rebel against the existing government and to replace it with new political forms and leadership
B)involves norms and values that condone and legitimize the use of violence in resolving conflicts
C)is fought against a nation not about to attack but believed to be a possible threat in the future
D)is fought against a nation that is believed about to attack but has not yet done so
Q2) Which of the following is a true statement about civil disorders?
A)They are always unorganized and have short-term goals.
B)They are always racially motivated.
C)They are always organized and have long-term goals.
D)They always involve the government in some fashion.
Q3) What are the three categories of social sources of violence?
Q4) Why is mobilization important for collective violence to occur?
Q5) How can efforts at world government be made effective?
Q6) What are the measures taken by Russia and the United States toward arms control and disarmament?
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