If we fail to respect and obey social norms, we may be punished through informal or formal what?
Correct answer B. Sanctions
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Who suggested that the punishments a culture establishes help define acceptable behaviour and so contribute to stability?
Correct answer D. Emile Durkheim
What does the term ‘sociocultural change’ refer to?
Correct answer C. Changes of both kind
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Who offered pioneering insights into professional criminals by publishing an annotated account written by a professional thief?
Correct answer C. Edwin Sutherland
What kind of change is the addition of new words to a language?
Correct answer C. Cultural Change
What are gambling, public drunkenness, prostitution and smoking marijuana often regarded as?
Correct answer D. “victimless” crimes
Which word completes the saying ‘Change is the only ____ in the universe’?
Correct answer B. Constant
Which term did Charles Perrow introduce for failures that are inevitable given the way human and technological systems are organised?
Correct answer B. Normal accidents
Who put forward the theory that all civilisations move in an endless cycle between three cultural systems?
Correct answer B. Pitirim Sorokin
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Which growing problem did the Macpherson Report draw attention to?
Correct answer A. Institutional racism: systematic forms of disadvantage built into the routines and practices of social institutions
According to Comte, what characterises the first stage of social development?
Correct answer C. Guided by supernatural wisdom
Inventions can be split into material and social inventions. What is democratic government an example of?
Correct answer A. Social Invention
What did Sutherland’s study of the professional thief suggest?
Correct answer D. People are socialised into a life of crime by associating with others who define it in positive terms
In how many directions does diffusion usually operate?
Correct answer C. Two-way
What is change almost always?
Correct answer A. Costly
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Ogburn identified three forms of the social effects of inventions. One is dispersion, the many effects of a single mechanical invention. Which is an example of this?
Correct answer C. Both a and b
How was disciplinary power exercised in 19th-century factories?
Correct answer B. Punctuality uninterrupted work and the threat of dismissal
Nineteenth-century theories of social change drew on pioneering work in biological evolution by whom?
Correct answer D. Charles Darwin
Which of the following does Wilkinson identify as the main determinant of relative health in a society?
Correct answer B. Social integration
Which theorist argued that conflict is a normal and desirable part of social change?
Correct answer A. Karl Marx