SOC 1010/Chapter 6: Deviance

The year - saw the highest homicide rates in U.S. history, at - per 100,000 persons, or 24,700 murders. Between then and - , there was a dramatic - in homicide rates, and the rate has stayed - ever since

-1991 -9.8 -2000 -Drop -Low

Which of the following hypothetical scenarios are examples of social control in the United States?

Example(s) of Social Control : -Parents often reminding their young children not to pick their noses -Compulsory schooling laws for high-school-aged students Not Example(s) of Social Control : -Eating lunch with your group of friends in the mall food court -Playing a team sport such as football

The total number of violent crimes decreased between 2000 and 2017, whereas the total number of property crimes increased between 2000 and 2017.

FALSE

A citizen group sends letters to the governor of a southern state and asks her to reconsider stopping the execution of a man on death row convicted of murdering a police officer. The governor declines, stating that the purpose of the criminal justice system is to remove this convicted murderer from society so that everyone else can be protected. What type of justification for punishment is used by the governor?

Incapacitation

Place each type of crime in order of its rate, from highest to lowest, in the given year.

Murder in 2012 Rape in 1996 Robbery in 2004 Aggravated assault in 1996

Identify the true and false statements about deviance.

True Statement(s) : -What is considered deviant can vary across different cultures. -What is considered deviant can change over time. False Statement(s) : -Deviant behavior may not be serious or unusual but can still spark a negative sanction. -Group reactions are unimportant in determining deviant behavior.

Place each personality type to the proper location in Merton's typology of deviance.

1st Box : Conformity 2nd : Innovation 3rd : Ritualism 4th : Retreatism

What are the distinguishing features of a symbolic interactionist theory of social deviance?

Distinguishing Feature(s): -A recognition of the impact of assigning labels to behaviors and to people -A focus on individual psychology rather than on the social dynamics of large populations Not Distinguishing Feature(s): -A search for the functional importance of a person's behavior in relation to the rest of the social group

Researchers in a psychology experiment (Rosenhan 1973) applied labeling theory to the diagnosis of schizophrenia in a psychiatric setting. What was the experimental design?

Non-schizophrenic persons first feigned mental illness, then reverted to normal behavior. The goal was to see how doctors would interpret the change.

Match each form of punishment for deviant behavior to its respective society.

Colonial Americans : Flogging Native Americans : Banishment from the community The Amish : Shunning

Match each personality type from structural strain theory to its definition.

Rebel : Renounces society's approved goals and means entirely and instead works toward his or her own goals using new means Ritualist : Gives up on achieving society's approved goals but accepts the means to achieve those goals Innovator : Accepts society's approved goals but rejects the means to achieve those goals Retreatist : Renounces society's approved goals and means entirely and lives outside the conventional norms altogether

Match each social theorist to how his work relates to social deviance theory.

Émile Durkheim : Offered a functionalist theory of deviance Howard Becker : Applied labeling theory to the question of how deviance begins Robert Merton : Developed strain theory as a functionalist account of social deviance Erving Goffman : Applied social interactionist theory to the dynamics of stigma

Identify the following as either violent crime or property crime.

Violent Crime : -Robbery -Rape -Aggravated assault -Murder Property Crime : -Motor vehicle theft -Larceny -Burglary -Arson

The latest crime statistics in the United States suggest that fifteen - to nineteen-year-olds make up about ---- percent of the population but account for ---- percent of criminal arrests, while people sixty-five and older make up more than ---- percent of the population but account for less than ---- percent of arrests.

-7 -12 -15 -1

Place each study of deviance in order, from first to last.

1st - David Matza called for social scientists to understand deviant phenomena in a perspective he called "naturalism." 2nd - Alexander Liazos suggested that the sociology of deviance mostly focuses on "nuts and sluts." 3rd - Jack Katz noted that many studies of deviance focus on background rather than foreground factors. 4th - Leila Rupp and Verta Taylor spent three years studying drag queens.

Using labeling theory, place in order from first to last the stages by which a student, named Evan, assumes the role of social deviant.

1st - Evan is late for school twice in one week and the school principal publicly calls Evan a truant. 2nd - Evan's teachers and friends start to treat him as a troublemaker and Evan comes to think of himself as a rule breaker. 3rd - Evan begins to break school rules on a regular basis.