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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 16

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Question 1:

Just two decades ago, tattoos served what purpose?
a) Membership in high society
b) To signify criminal acts committed
c) Membership in a subculture
d) Individualism

Question 2:

According to Merton, the gap between cultural/societal goals and access to legitimate means of attaining them can lead to which of the following?
a) Strain
b) Stress
c) Significant
d) Select

Question 3:

What term did Lemert use to refer to a violation of social norms that are the result of an individual having internalized, or taken on, a deviant identity?
a) Role confusion
b) Secondary deviance
c) Summary offence
d) Deviant ideology

Question 4:

What term did sociologist Weinberg and psychologist Bell use to replace “homosexuality” as a way of challenging the assumption that sexual categories and the individuals who made up those categories are homogeneous?
a) Queer
b) Gay
c) Sexually-fluid
d) Homosexualities

Question 5:

How do criminologists Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey view crime?
a) As biological innate
b) As inherently criminal
c) As a normal part of society
d) As a social phenomenon

Question 6:

What measure of crime takes into account the severity of the crimes?
a) Uniform Crime Report
b) Long Form Census
c) Crime Severity Index
d) General Social Survey

Question 7:

What type of criminal operates business enterprises that supply illegal goods and services with the purpose of economic gain?
a) Organized criminal
b) Corporate criminal
c) White-collar criminal
d) Property criminal

Question 8:

What type of crime has been increasing in Canada, and is higher than in the US?
a) Organized crime
b) Hate crime
c) Corporate crime
d) Property crime

Question 9:

Which of the following groups is more highly represented as offenders in the criminal justice system relative to their numbers in the population?
a) Aboriginals
b) Youth
c) Women
d) Over the age of 65

Question 10:

In Canada, what is the percentage of Aboriginal federal inmates?
a) 36
b) 75
c) 20
d) 3

Question 11:

Most forms of deviance are crimes.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Thoughts, acts, behaviours, or human conditions can be inherently deviant, depending on the individual.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Since 2013, greater protections have been put in place for LGBT individuals in Russia.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

According to Durkheim, crime and deviance are a normal part of any society and have positive functions.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Deviant behaviour, according to strain theory, is the result of innovation, ritualism, and retreatism.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Two centuries ago being thin was considered a good thing, an indication you were in good health and affluent.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Corporate offences actually cause more death, injury, and economic loss than the top eight street crimes combined.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

In 2013, 672 organized crime groups operated in Canada.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Canadian males and females are equally likely to commit criminal offences.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Once incarcerated, non-Aboriginal offenders are more likely than Aboriginal offenders to serve a higher portion of their sentences before being paroled.
a) True
b) False