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both cesare lombroso and enrico ferri agreed that there were different criminal types which included all of the following except the
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white collar criminal
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true or false: it has been conclusively proven that there is a strong relationship between someones IQ and the likelihood that they will become a criminal
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false
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true or false: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can be treated in some individuals very succesfully using drugs such as stimulants such as ritalin and methamphetamine
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as discussed in class and seen in the video wi wached about troubled children, some children grow up acting much like sociopaths in the way they mistreat otheres, a problem reffered to as
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an attachment disorder
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true or false: in the video killing us softly 3, it is explained that we are constantly being presented with a picture of the ideal woman and man bu advertising, something that gives a lot of people that impression that they are physically deviant
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according to the video killing us softly 3, the first step in justifying violence agains women is
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seeing them as objects
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which of the followin is NOT a characteristic of a psychopath/sociopath
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a strong sense of empathy
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durkheims anomie theory states that deviance and crime are the result of
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social disintegration or unfullfilled human aspirations that are insufficiently regulated by the norms of society
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merto believe that most everyone in society believes in the same three goals
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money power prestige
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according to merton the modes of adaptation, most people believe in both the goas of society and legitamate means byu which they can be achieved. IN this respect most people are
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conformists
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true or false: the zonal hypothesis states that there are areas or zones in metropolitan areas where crime remains constant even as immigrants to the city move through zones to other zones they do not bring crime with them
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true
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albert cohen's "middle class measuring rod"
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outlines the ideal values and norms of the middle class
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which of the following is not an element of sutherlands idea of differential association
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criminal and noncriminal behavior are reflections of quite different needs and values
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sutherland said that delinquent behavior is learned not inherited he also said that learning occurs in intimate groups
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according to matza's drift theory, delinquents
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are much like their law abiding friends
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true or false: the basic notion of control theory is that people are evil or at best, amoral
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from the standpoint of control theorists, define the meaning of external controls and internal controls and give and example of each
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An external control is comething that you can use to help stay away from crime, for example an external control could be a good role model
An internal control is something that you use to divert from crime, for example a strong moral conscience |
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true or false: in Control theory of delinquency, travis hirschi maintains that control theory assumes the existence of a common value system within the society or group who's norms are being violated
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Travis Hirschi named four outer dimensions of social bonding, list and define them
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1 belief- you must firmly believe that being food is for the good of society, believe in the values and norms of scoiety
2 attachment- this states that a parent must spend time with a child so as to create an attachment |
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2 other outer dimensions of social bonding by hirschi
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involvement- children must be preoccupied so that they cant get incolved with deviant behavior
commitment- commited to norms and values that society teaches |
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in writing about labeling theory, edwin lemert calls the type of deviance that everyone engages in occasionaly
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primary deviation
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labeling theorists maintain that labeling sometimes leads a child to become known as a delinquent thereby making delinquency
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a master status
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in his essay labeing theory howard becker states that the central fact about deviance is that
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it is created by society
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beckers labeling theory states that deviant acts are defined by
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how people react to them
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the basic understanding of the conflict theory, as described by richard quinney in his eassy "conflict theory of crime" is that
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laws protect the interests of dominate classes in society
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In robert Regoli's and John Hewitt's differential oppression theory, the cause of delinquency is blamed on
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the oppression of children by adults
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according to joel bests "deviance:the constructionist stance" the constructionist perspective represents a wedding of the views of
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labeling and conflict theories
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the type of research conducted by the adlers as described in the article "researching dealers and smugglers" is known as
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qualitative
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of the problems the adlers confronted with their research one was not.....
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problems maintaing their database on their personal computer
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in order for the adlers to get people to participate in their study
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it was necessary to develope trust in their respondents
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as discussed in the introduction to part 4, the adlers point out that howard becker suggested that we call people who "make" deviance by drawing on the power and resources of organizations, intitutions, agencies, symbols, ideas, communication and audience
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moral entrepreneurs
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the adlers describe the process by which rule enforcing is brought about in society. what are the 2 steps
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claims making, and moral conversion
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the idea of differential social power includes the notion that a deviant definition can be applied too a social status or lifestyle. when entire groups can be dubbed with a deviant status, tha basis for this understanding is often based on
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an ascribed status
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in his essay social construction of drug scares, craig reinarman states that the first most significant drug scare in the us was over
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alcohol
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true or false: in discussing culturally specific theory of drug scares, reinarman notes that drug scares have been far less common and less virulent in societies other than the US
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according to tuggle and homes essay, "blowing smoke, status politicas and the smoking ban" the underlying assumption of the theory of status politics is that
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deviance is socially constructed
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Tuggle and Holmes use of the theory of status politics in examining public attities regarding smoking is based on the assumption that
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denouncing smoking symbolically enhances the status of moral entrepreneurs
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true or false. Mary DeYoung in her essay "moral panics, the case of Satanic Day care centers," notes that moral panics serve as a destablizing function at a time of unsettling social strain
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what did Mary DeYoung name as the trigger or spark of the 1983 McMartin preschool moral panic
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vague comments by a 2 and a half year old
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IN william chambliss' essay, "the saints and the roughnecks," the group who were the most delinquent boys at hanibal high school were
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the saints
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one major difference in the frequency of offenses between the saints and the roughnexks that lead to one group being singled out as the more delinquent is
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one group had less money than the other
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true or false: the current status of the grownup members of the saints and the roughnecks confirmed that the community's confidence in what their potential would lead to
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according to Elijah andersons essay, Police and the Black male, there are differences in the ways that black citizens contrast the local plice from their neighborhoods and the downtown police with whom they sometimes must deal. Name three of these differences
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1 local police are more involved with the communities, they know some of the people of the area by name
2 the downtown police are less inclined to be kind with the people of the neighborhood 3 the downtown police are more racist and beat the people on the street corner |
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true or false: Anderson states that when blacke attain a certain age, such as 24 years of age, they stop getting stopped by the police so often and wehn they are, they are no longer the object of the police scrutiny they once faced.
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fales
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In the video a class divided, the teacher divides her class into 2 groups based on their
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eye color
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the studends who appeared in A class divided were
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all white
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in the presentation "the history of non medical use drugs in the US," charles whitebread describes the process by which laws are passed to regulate immoral behavior such as drug use. the most important step is
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to describe the activity as a practice of an out group of society
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whitebread maintains that the single law most responsible for reducing drug addiction in the US was
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the pure food and drug act of 1906
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briefly describe the process the US congress went through to pass the marijuana tax act of 1937
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no debate, voice vote
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the movie dogtown z-boys describes the group of skateboarders who revolutionized the sport as being
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outsiders
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the z boys included diverse group of individuals, the one group that was not represented by the z-boys was
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none they got em all
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according to the lecture, the group in US society that has been, throughout history, the least likely to use drugs is
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african americans
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the way we interact with people has a lot to do with the way that we percieve them based on such factors as the way they are intrinsically, what they have done or rank they have in society, qualities that make up an individual's
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status
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Charles Cooley, in discussing the social/symbolic interactionalistic perspective, says that we present ourselves to others as we believe other expect us to be, a course of action that he calls
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the looking glass process
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you might be a good student and a fantastic party animal. unfortunately, you might have na important paper due tommorow and a major mid-winter party to go to tonight. if you go to the party you wont have time to write the paper: if you write the paper you lose your face as a party animal. this is an example of
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role conflict
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the characteristics that we have just being ourselves are often more important in ways people interact with us than the chatacteristics we have developed ourselves through hard work and study. these statuses are reffered to as
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ascribed status
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unfortunately,when a chiold has been dubbed a delinquent, it becomes the label most people associate with taht indivicaul making it their
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achieved status
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some norms that are shared by societies are helpful in that they direct us in carrying out our day to day lives so that we can live in harmony. theses norms are normally not a matter of life or death, but simply understood rules of conduct. these low impact norms are called
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folkways
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looking at life as a sociologist, we see that humans are the product of forces around us that form us into the individuals we are, establishes the values and norms we believe in, and provides us with our self identity, a phenomenon reffered to as
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socialization
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in order for a theory to be useful to sociologists in understaing and dealing with deviance is must have all of the following qualitites except
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dialectical inteegrity
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one of the assumptions of the positicist perspective of deviance is that deviance is and obserbable object, hense objective research methods can be used.
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objectivism
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the idea that deviance is the product of causation is called
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determinism
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which of the following is not a a significant finding that emerged from self report studies
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there is actually no crime in the US
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the group that settled in massachustes in the 1600's and who laid the foundation of the normative system for the US were
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the puritans
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before the classical school
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the nobility were spared the the most torturous and degrading punishments
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the basis of tghe idea of the social contract is
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people exchange some of their freedoms for protections from those who would harm them
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true or false: Ceasare Beccaria wrote an essay on crimes and punishments, in which he stated that the prevention of crime is more important than the punishment of the crimes
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look at the first test questions 17 to 20
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according to tittle and paternosters essay" a typology if deviance based on middle class norms, the group that dominates US society's standards and norms is
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the middle class
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according to the essay written by Druann Heckert, students in prestigous, selective schools such as the university of colorado, are an example of
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positive deviance
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true or false: the primary point that emile durkheim makes in his essay, the normal and the pathological, is that crime is both necessary and useful in society
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in his essay "social structure and Anomie" Robert Merton maintains that in modern societies there are culturally defined goals that are promoted that all believe in and strive for
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institutionalized norms
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crime according to sutherlands and cressey's essay, differential association,
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is learned much the same way as all ordinary behavior
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although ti si stull a hotly debated issue, the consensus among experts is that the effect of prnography is considered to be
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not harmful if it is not violent
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according to social research, the groups in society that are most likely to engage in extramarital sex are
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lower income males
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in recent years the biggest market place for pronography in the US bas become
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the internet
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generally sexual harrasment in the Us
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reflects mens attempt to preserve their traditional domination over women
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true or false: most prostitutes tend to about the same social and sexual backgrounds, educational levels and goals as conventional women
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in the movie American Pimp we are given the impression that
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pimps have predatory relationship with their prostitutes
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true or false. the aristocrats of prostitution, highest paid most succesful and safest are the women who are not call girls
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false
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the primary reason that women become prostitutes is
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the money
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johns or the clients of prostitutes, are likely to participae in the sex trade for all the following reasons except
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they wish to avoid the possibility of contracting aids
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one truth about homosexuality is that
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most gay men and lesbianslook and behave like their heterosexual counterparts
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in most same sex relationships
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a more egalitarian realtionship exists than in most heterosexual relationship
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the latest statistics tell us that the percentage of persons with gay or lesbain self identification in the us is
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2.8% men and 1.4% women
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althouhg aids is not as great a problem in the gay communityas it was due to safe sex practices and monogamy, what group in in society is now affected
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heterosexuals 18 to 25
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in the early 80's gay mens sexual activity went through a radical shift from casual sex to monogamy beacuse of
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an increased fear of AIDS
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the most successful, feasable waythat the spread of aids can be prevented is
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the use of condoms
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the percentage of people in the US who believe gays and lesbians should have equal right in areas such as job opportunities, health insurance, inheritance, and social security
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80%
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one thing that is not true about homophobes is that
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they look great in mascara and eye liner
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true or false: one thing about todays society is that the intolerance based on sexual preferences is no longer evident
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according to Weinberg, Williams and Priors article , becoming bisexual, a bisexual individaul has gone through a series of steps to embrace that identity. the first of these steps is
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a state of identity confusion
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name 3 of 5 reasons that scully and amrolla in their essay , convicted rapists vocabulary fo motive, gives as a justification given by rapists to justify rape
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women are seductive, no means yes, nice girls dont get raped
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true or false: According to adina nack in her article, identity and stigma of women with STD's. once women have made both therapeutic and preventive disclosure of their diseases, most women no longer carry the intense shame of being sexually diseased women.
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the article "sexual asphyxia, a neglected area of study," deals with a practice that
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is a highly secretive and hidden from of deviance
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in his article, cruising for sex in public places, richard tewksbury describes the men who participate in this practice as being
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from all walks of life
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amy flowers deails an interesting realm of sexual acitvity in her essay "the manufacture of fantasy"
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phone sex
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Martin and hummer maintain in their essay, fraternities rape on campus that the drug that is mostly responsible for rapes in thsi setting is
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alcohol
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