According to sociologists, what has shaped Canadian culture?
Correct answer E. Immigration
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Merton described responses to a situation where widely endorsed goals exist but the means to achieve them are limited. Which type accepts the goals but is willing to use any means to reach them?
Correct answer B. Innovators
What are dignity, personal integrity and the inviolability of body and mind examples of?
Correct answer C. Human rights
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Which approach analysed crime and deviance in terms of the ruling class preserving its power?
Correct answer B. New criminology
What is the process by which cultural elements become closely linked and mutually dependent called?
Correct answer B. Cultural integration
Which of the following does NOT count as target hardening?
Correct answer C. Anti-social behaviour orders
Which theory holds that unique customs develop and persist because they are adaptive?
Correct answer B. Functionalism
What is repeat offending by former prisoners called?
Correct answer C. Recidivism
What does non-material culture consist of?
Correct answer C. Customs, beliefs and ideas
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What did Lombroso claim?
Correct answer B. Biological failings drove some people into crime
What does the term ‘secondary deviation’ refer to?
Correct answer A. The ways in which taking on a deviant role affects future action
Is a prayer mat part of material or non-material culture?
Correct answer C. Material culture
In how many stages did Auguste Comte see cultural development unfolding?
Correct answer B. Three Stages
What is the Mafia an example of?
Correct answer B. Organised crime
What effect do extreme climatic conditions have on culture?
Correct answer C. Obstacle to cultural development
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How does terrorism differ from the kinds of crime described by the Chicago School?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Sociologists believe that no behaviour is what?
Correct answer A. Inherently deviant
What does a statistical norm describe?
Correct answer B. What actually exists
When ideas of right and wrong are attached to folkways, what do they become?
Correct answer B. Mores
Peer approval of your actions is a good example of what?
Correct answer A. Informal social control