What term describes failing to conform to a set of norms accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society?
Correct answer C. Deviance
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What did Dahrendorf, Rex and Habermas focus on?
Correct answer D. Power domination and conflict
How does new-style terrorism differ from the old style?
Correct answer C. It has ambitions that are global in scope
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In modern society, cultural change is most likely to come about as a by-product of what?
Correct answer C. Diffusion
According to the sociological study of deviance, which statement is true?
Correct answer A. Deviance is a property conferred upon particular behaviours by social definitions
The development of computers and the growing use of the internet are examples of which source of social change?
Correct answer D. Innovation
What reason do people most often give for not reporting a crime?
Correct answer D. Too trivial for the police
What do cyclical theorists do?
Correct answer C. Try to predict the course of a civilisation or society
Which of these is NOT one of the three main kinds of social control process?
Correct answer B. Conformity with norms
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Which outcome is likely to result from the computer revolution in the United States?
Correct answer B. A centralised accumulation of power in the hands of those who have access to computers
Doing well at school matters a great deal to Sammi, so she regularly cheats in tests. In Merton’s structural strain theory, what is Sammi?
Correct answer B. Innovator
In developing nations, which factors push social change towards a liberal Western democratic type of society?
Correct answer B. Literacy education and communication
What question do control theorists ask in their study of deviance?
Correct answer D. Why are people not deviant?
In what way does a fashion differ from a fad?
Correct answer C. Fashions enjoy widespread acceptance within society, fads enjoy acceptance only among a segment of the population
Crowds share three characteristics. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Correct answer C. Transformation
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Which of these is NOT part of the criminal justice system?
Correct answer B. Military
In Smelser’s model, which determinant of collective behaviour comes first?
Correct answer C. Structural conduciveness
What does selective confinement do?
Correct answer C. Does keep “hard core” criminals off the street
What idea is central to the concept of a social movement?
Correct answer C. People intervene in the process of social change
What is the main source of social control?
Correct answer C. Social norms and traditions