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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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
What reason do people most often give for not reporting a crime?
Correct answer D. Too trivial for the police
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Which of these is NOT one of the three main kinds of social control process?
Correct answer B. Conformity with norms
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
What question do control theorists ask in their study of deviance?
Correct answer D. Why are people not deviant?
Which of these is NOT part of the criminal justice system?
Correct answer B. Military
What does selective confinement do?
Correct answer C. Does keep “hard core” criminals off the street
What is the main source of social control?
Correct answer C. Social norms and traditions
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There are two types of group. Which one is closer and more intimate?
Correct answer C. Primary
When we move from primary groups to secondary groups, what kind of shift in control also takes place?
Correct answer A. Informal to formal
In China, social control works largely through group pressure, with every individual belonging to a small unit. What is this unit called?
Correct answer B. Danwei
To a large extent, the study of deviant behaviour is the study of what?
Correct answer C. Criminal behaviour
How do the factors behind downward mobility compare with those behind upward mobility?
Correct answer B. Same
Societal reaction theory starts from the idea that deviance is created when an act is labelled as what?
Correct answer A. Deviant
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More women today are entering different fields and earning their own status in society. This gives women a route of mobility other than what?
Correct answer C. Marriage
What still greatly limits the career mobility of married women?
Correct answer C. Household duties
Who is a leading exponent of the view that the criminal justice system serves the interests of the powerful?
Correct answer B. Richard Quinney
Which social psychologist drew a useful distinction between conformity and obedience?
Correct answer B. Stanley Milgram
According to Merton’s anomie theory of deviance, which adaptation is the most common?
Correct answer A. Conformity