Deviance In U.s Society

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In explaining the seven ingredients of his recipe for drug scares in “The Social Construction of Drug Scares,” Craig Reinarman says that because it gives great explanatory power and thus broader resonance to claims about the horrors of drugs, the most crucial element of the seven is

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Scapegoating a Drug for a Wide Array of Public Problems

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In their discussion in “Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban,” Tuggle and Holmes note that those prevailing in moral and stigma contests typically represent

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the higher socioeconomic echelons of society

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In the conclusion of “The Cyberporn and Child Sexual Predator Moral Panic,” Potter and Potter refer to studies by Fine that point out how many urban myths today focus on the impersonality of modern life and a) decaying morals, b) collapse of society’s institutions,
c) economic stress, d) the failure of the educational system, e) rapid technological change. (p 182)

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e) rapid technological change.

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Devah Pager states that for stratification researchers there is a new institution that has emerged as central to the sorting and stratifying of young and disadvantaged men: a) the criminal justice system, b) the educational system, c) labor markets, d) the family, e) the internet.

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a) the criminal justice system

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The process that sociologists say causes people to become what they are in terms of their beliefs, their occupation, how they relate to one another, their socioeconomic status, and so forth is called a) citizenship, b) personality formation, c) cultural molding, d) socialization,
e) inculcation.

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d) socialization

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According to Cesar Beccaria and the Classical School, the main reason we punish people is a) that we don’t know what else to do with them, b) to deter deviance or crime from happening, c) for revenge, d) to maintain social control, e) to drive the Devil from society.

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b) to deter deviance or crime from happening

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Both Cesar Lombroso and Enrique Ferri divided criminals into different groups defined by the characteristics of the offenders, a process they thought was necessary in order to
a) properly punish wrongdoers, b) guard against escape attempts, c) prevent the corruption of youth, d) protect their victims from further abuse, e) enable the proper rehabilitation of different types of offenders.

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e) enable the proper rehabilitation of different types of offenders.

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) If you told David Matza that you might have hit your younger brother but that you didn’t do it very hard and didn’t hurt him so he shouldn’t be angry with you, something he will not buy into because he will recognize you are using one of his Techniques of Neutralization or a) denial of injury, b) denial of responsibility, c) condemnation of condemners, d) appeal to a higher loyalty, e) appropriate punishment.

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a) denial of injury

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In discussing the causes of deviant behavior in youngsters, Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Self-Control Theory maintains the major problems are found in child rearing, namely a lack of effective attachment between parents and children and a) a lack of respect for the norms of society, b) a lack of effective, balanced discipline, c) a lack of attachment to the community,
d) poor performance in school, e) substance abuse.

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b) a lack of effective

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Right now, in this room, my status to you is that of a professor. If we meet on the Pearl Street Mall this weekend, my status to you might be something very different, like homeless person. So for now, I am going to enjoy being a professor in your eyes, something Howard Becker would call my a) delusion of grandeur, b) master status, c) primary status, d) ascribed status, e) accomplished status.

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b) master status

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In the process of rule enforcing, moral entrepreneurs first generate a broad public awareness of the problem they are concerned with in order to bring about a) a moral conversion, b) funding for their project, c) the attention of the media, d) the attention of politicians,
e) respectability for their cause.

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a) a moral conversion

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In writing about labeling theory, Edwin Lemert calls the type of deviance that everyone engages in occasionally a) the greatest problem faced in dealing with delinquency, b) primary deviation, c) secondary deviation, d) the product of a long process of deviation and society’s reaction to it, e) the dualistic fallacy.

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b) primary deviation

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) in the movie, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollen states that a greatest problem that we face as an unintended consequence of modern large-scale agriculture is a) the elimination of the family-farm in favor of large scale agri-business, b) developing a mono-culture in only planting a single variety of a plant, c) the environmental degradation due to the use of herbicides, d) pests developing resistance to pesticides, e) the diversion of water for irrigation projects.

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b) developing a mono-culture in only planting a single variety of a plant

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The reason we have focused on food as our example of environmental deviance is a) Dr. Watterworth loves food, b) the planting, tending, harvesting, preparing, and eating of food are basic social rituals that define a society, c) food can kill people, d) good food is the basis of good health, e) all of the above.

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e) all of the above.

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in Althea’s presentation, she made the point that we use many plastic products like water bottles, once and throw them away. The amount of plastics that are actually recycled today amounts to
a) 50 percent, b) 30 percent, c) 20 percent, d) 6 percent, e) 2 percent.

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d) 6 percent

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We learned from Althea’s presentation that garbage and recycling are social issues because
a) we are using up landfills, b) people’s behavior is behind the problem, c) we need more regulation to reduce the volume of trash, d) “zero waste” is not feasible, e) going to a garbage dump and shooting rats with a BB gun makes for a great date.

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a) we are using up landfills

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According to Robert D. Bullard, environmental racism historically began with the colonization of people of color, and people of color are subjected to all of the following principal colonizing processes except a) they enter the “host” society involuntarily, b) their native culture is destroyed, c) white-dominant bureaucracies impose restrictions from which white are exempt, d) the dominant group uses institutional racism to justify its environmental racism, e) colonies were created to enrich the lives of the colonized and the colonizers. (p. 98)

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e) colonies were created to enrich the lives of the colonized and the colonizers.

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In the article “The Hidden Link Between Factory Farms and Human Illness” we learn that the particular concern scientists have about factory farm production is the rapid rise of anti-biotic-resistant microbes, an inevitable consequence of a) the overcrowding of animals, b) the widespread use of antibiotics as feed additives, c) genetically modified crops, d) the cloning of animals, e) the alien invasion of the earth. (p 1)

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b) the widespread use of antibiotics as feed additives

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In “Unsafe at Any Meal” Schlosser maintains that the group that is most vulnerable to the impact of contaminated food are a) the elderly, b) teenagers, c) children under the age of 4, d) poor people, e) minorities. (p 1)

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c) children under the age of 4

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One problem with global trade in food that Gottlieb does not address in “The Cost of a Global Food Chain” is a) increased pollution, b) altering of traditional diets, c) the impact on local farmers,
d) the loss of a piece of our culture, e) an increase in the cost of food.

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e) an increase in the cost of food.