Which type of crime have biological positivists tended to focus on?
Correct answer A. Violent
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Which sociologist was responsible for the modern adaptation of strain theory?
Correct answer E. Merton
Older people in sheltered housing, offshore oil rig workers, rodeo cowboys and circus performers are all examples of what sociologists call what?
Correct answer C. Subcultures
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According to strain theory, what kind of deviant activity are retreatists likely to engage in?
Correct answer E. Drug abuse
Which sociologist coined the term ethnocentrism?
Correct answer C. William Graham Sumner
According to Sutherland’s differential association theory, crime and deviance are basically what?
Correct answer B. Learned
In a sense, xenocentrism is the reverse of what?
Correct answer B. Ethnocentrism
Which of these was not one of the four social bonds in Hirschi’s social control theory?
Correct answer E. Religiosity
What are values, traditions and beliefs examples of?
Correct answer A. Non-material culture
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What is the central concept in labelling theory?
Correct answer B. Stigma
What can using language to label people lead to?
Correct answer D. Self-fulfilling prophecy
What is the ‘natural law’ approach essentially concerned with?
Correct answer A. The protection of universal human rights
How does conflict theory view the use of humour?
Correct answer C. Political tool
Robert Merton’s ideas on crime and deviance use the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Merton’s work?
Correct answer C. Social strain
Which of these concepts is not associated with Left Realist explanations of criminal subcultures?
Correct answer C. Individual pathology
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Bringing music and films into Canada from another country is a good example of which type of diffusion?
Correct answer B. Indirect
Which of the following is not a reason why corporate crime is harder to prosecute than individual crime?
Correct answer B. Corporate offences cause less harm than crimes against an individual
Which sociological theory stresses the role of language and literacy in resisting cultural subordination?
Correct answer B. Conflict
Which of these would not be a good example of a counterculture?
Correct answer E. Toronto Raptors fans
What is defined as non-conformity to a set of norms accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society?
Correct answer B. Deviance