Module 4 Quiz

The U.S. first real drug law was San Francisco's anti-opium den ordinance of 1875. The context of the campaign for this law shared many features with the Temperance movement. Opiates had long been used legally without prescription in medications. So it wasn't really about the use of opiates or addiction that was really being seen as the issue at hand. The campaign that helped pass this law focused strictly on the deviance associated with Chinese immigrants within the U.S. at the time. The phrase that was most focused on within the campaign was negative association through what labeling term? What was the term that was used within this campaign.

"Mongolian Vice"

Many times companies, individuals and even large organizations are met with unanticipated, negative consequences of social action. What is the term that is used in Chapter 15 that refers to this?

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Historically, attempts to control psychoactive substances have linked to categories of powerless people. Marijuana with Mexicans, Cocaine (Crack/Rock) with African-Americans, Opiates with Asians and alcohol with immigrant Catholics. What does chapter 16 tie together with the use of Tobacco?

Occupation, Education, Family income

The ability to define and construct reality is closely connected to the power structure of society.

True

The term "Criminal" is not just a reflection of one's past misdeeds, but is also a prediction of future behavior and because "The idea that people can become essentially good seems to contradict a fundamental belief of contemporary society", individuals branded "criminal" by the state struggle to escape the label.

True

Chapter 15 uses the term "Drug Scares" for a specific purpose. The article alludes to this choice with a nod to the concept of "Red Scares" or the fear of Communists within the United States during the "cold war". Similar to the ability to discourage, alienate and label things as deviant or communist how did drug use have a similar deviant impact according to the chapter's reasoning?

Used as a moral panic ideology

From what you learned in the "Constructing Deviance" lecture, which of the following are considered moral entrepreneurs?

Both A and B are correct

As our technology continuous to get better and better we also see the use of this being optimized differently. The practice of recording all engagements with authorities, or anything that feels strange or interesting to capture people on "film" for a record of a situation is a "norm" and now is what most people do when they see illegal behavior, or that which they think might become as such. The idea of recording, and then sharing a "criminal" or "strange" behavior to platforms within various social media sites would fit best with which of the readings this week?

Foucault

Reinarman points to seven "ingredients" that increased the quality and quantity of social control, particularly over subordinate groups perceived as dangerous or threatening. Which of the following is NOT one of the seven key "ingredients" talked about within Chapter 15?!

Social-Moral Entrepreneurs

Liz is a Female Parolee within our readings. She is a strong success story of how women whom are felons are not as stigmatized as men, and once released are able to "rejoin" the workforce at their own will. They are not seen as social deviants and because of the sexist notions are not viewed as a threat. Liz is a great example of a double standard within the after prison life example.

False

The higher one's social position, the lesser is one's moral value.

False

Which of the following best summarizes the premise of Reinarman's article?

It is equally important to understand drug scares as it is to understand why people use drugs.

According to Reinarman, anti-drug crusades have generally been associated with:

Minority and disadvantaged groups as scapegoats for creating new legislation

From what you learned in the "Constructing Deviance" lecture, which of the following best fits as a negative outcome that can arise from the moral entrepreneurs' claimsmaking process?

Moral panic can arrise if they are too successful with their dangerous messaging

Which of the following best describes Foucault's Panopticism?

People will not deviate from norms because they may be watched at any time