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10 Cards in this Set
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Which one of the following countries has the highest incarceration rate in the world?
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United States
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Mores are norms that
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people define as pivotal to the well-being of the group
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U.S. government officials delayed for seven months the release of a congressional report concerning 9-11. When the report was released, some sections related to Saudi Arabia were blackened out. This mechanism of social control is known as
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censorship.
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From a sociological point of view, deviance is
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any behavior or physical appearance that is socially challenged or condemned.
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Howard Becker wrote, “No one really knows how much this phenomenon exists, but the amount is very sizable, much more than we are apt to think.” Becker was writing about
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secret deviants.
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Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience to authority offers insights as to how
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people in positions of authority manage to get others to accept their definitions of deviance.
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What event occurred in China between 1966 and 1976?
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The Cultural Revolution
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Labeling theorists maintain that determining whether an act is deviant is dependent on all but which one of the following?
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whether the deviant act was actually committed by the accused person
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U.S. parents who viewed films of Chinese preschools criticized them for
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not promoting self-centeredness.
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We pay special attention to the People’s Republic of China in Chapter 7 because changes in views about _________ illustrate the contextual nature of deviance.
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not individuality
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