Which model involves extensive use of public money to promote economic development?
Correct answer C. State capitalism
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According to Merton’s anomie theory of deviance, which adaptation is the most common?
Correct answer A. Conformity
The type of capitalism that thrives in some developing countries is marked by a high degree of what?
Correct answer E. Repression
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____ see standards of deviance as simply reflecting cultural norms, while ____ and ____ theorists argue that powerful groups shape laws and decide who is, or is not, prosecuted as a criminal. Which option fills the blanks?
Correct answer C. Functionalists, conflict, labelling
How does the functionalist view of social change see both development and modernisation?
Correct answer D. Slow and adaptive
Which of these counts as a white-collar crime?
Correct answer B. Each of the above
What are changes in the social structure of a society called?
Correct answer A. Social Change
Changes in social relationships are mainly what kind of change?
Correct answer C. Social Change
Which of these crime rates was higher in the United States than in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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How many stages of social development did Auguste Comte describe?
Correct answer C. Three stages
In the Marxian view, each historical stage contained within itself the seeds of what?
Correct answer A. Both b and c
How do functionalists regard change?
Correct answer B. Constant
What did the work of Carol Smart suggest?
Correct answer C. Women’s criminal behaviour tended to reflect traditional gender roles
What is a new combination or new use of existing knowledge called?
Correct answer B. Invention
What do patterns of drug use in Britain show?
Correct answer C. It has increased and is no longer confined to a hedonistic youth subculture
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What is the spread of cultural traits from one group to another called?
Correct answer C. Diffusion
Europeans gave firearms, whisky and smallpox to the American Indians in exchange for corn, potatoes and tobacco. What is this an example of?
Correct answer C. Diffusion
According to Foucault, what did carceral organisations do?
Correct answer C. Isolated people and put them under surveillance
What is a deviant an agent of?
Correct answer B. Change
What has technological surveillance made easier to do?
Correct answer D. All of the above