SOCL 3501
Which of the following is NOT a cause of increased depression among the young in recent decades? A. a shortage of psychiatric services. B. lack of parental love and affection. C. increases in social stress. D. reduced social resources for dealing with social stress.
A. a shortage of psychiatric services
Which of the following is NOT an example of Merton's legitimate means to achieving success? A. insider trading B. networking C. an education D. a good job
A. insider trading
According to the author, which statement about mental disorder is TRUE? A. Mental disorder is a relatively rare form of deviance. B. Mental disorder is basically biological in origin. C. Virtually all of us can be said to be mentally ill at one time or another. D. About one-half of us have symptoms that could be categorized as a mental disorder.
C. Virtually all of us can be said to be mentally ill at one time or another
Sarah is unhappy with a scar on her arm, and often wears long sleeved shirts to cover the mark, even in warm weather. This is an example of:
Goffman's concept of dramaturgy
Which of the following is an example of Burgess and Akers's Differential Reinforcement theory?
Having been rewarded with good grades for studying hard in the past, Trae continues to study hard today.
____ study the underlying causes of deviance through social and environmental factors.
Positivists
Which of the following is one reason why, for U.S. citizens, deviant behavior is more or less, rather than completely, deviant?
U.S. society is pluralistic
The high rise in youthful suicide over the last 40 years has resulted from
a great decline in social integration and regulation in teen life
According to Lemert, what is the first act in the sequence of interaction leading to secondary deviation?
a primary deviation
Evidence shows that genetic vulnerbility to mental illness cannot by itself lead to mental disorder, because it may have to be triggered by
a psychosocial force
Many sociologists and psychiatrists assume that the urban environment is likely to induce mental problems through
an abundance of physical and social stresses
The essential idea of conflict theory is that conflict as well as its resulting criminality is
an inherent, normal, and integral part of complex modern societies
Compared with women, men are less likely to have
anxiety attacks
To phenomenologists, "constructs of the second degree"
are far removed from the reality of deviant experience
Definitions of deviance fall into 2 opposing perspectives, the positivist and the
constructionist
Early in the twentieth century, criminologists believed that
criminals are born, not made
Phenomenological theories of suicide
deal with the popular meaning of suicide.
According to the constructionist perspective, sociologists need to
develop an internal, subjective view of people
In general, cutters are
difficult to situate in a category of deviance.
At what point is an inmate's stay at prison most likely to result in suicide?
during the initial phase of imprisonment
How many veterans with PTSD seek treatment?
fewer than half
According to Jerry Jacobs's theory of the suicidal process, suicide victims overcome prohibitions against suicide through a series of events. What is the first stage of this process?
finding themselves faced with unexpected and unsolvable problems
Which of the following is the most typical reaction of a suicide victim's family and friends?
guilt
If a person wanted to attempt suicide, but was not sure he or she wanted to die, which of the following methods would be the least favored?
hanging or shooting
Over the last 40 years, adolescent suicides have
increased dramatically
Which of the following statements is an accurate criticism of Burgess-Aker's social learning theory?
it cannot explain why a person initially commits a deviant act
A strong religious identity and degree of religious conservatism is associated with a(n) ____ suicide rate.
lower
If deviant behavior cannot be classified as psychotic or neurotic, a psychiatrist will classify it as a ____ disorder
personality
If neurotics can identify the specific object of their anxiety, they are said to experience
phobia
Determinist, objectivist, and absolutist are other terms for aspects of the ____ perspective on deviance.
positivist
According to Jack Douglas, there are 2 types of meanings: abstract meanings and ____ meanings.
situated
Joe was a sociologist who studied mental illness in a poor urban neighborhood whose residents have a high rate of mental illness. He discovered that many persons moving into the neighborhood had clear symptoms of mental illness, and that normal residents, when they could, moved out to a better neighborhood. His study would support the __________ explanation of the relations between class and mental illness.
social drift
Durkheim theorized that there are 2 major forces shaping suicide: social integration and ____
social regulation
The essence of several types of anomie-strain theory is that the experience of
socially induced strain pressures individuals to commit deviant acts.
The mental hospital is a ____ where patients are cut off from the greater society and lead an enclosed, regimented life.
total institution
