Chapter 17: Deviance – Flashcards

Deviance and control always constitute a paired relationship that consists of _____ and _____.

According to Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents, which of the following best exemplifies what he meant by basic needs and the "futility of rebellion"?

Our earliest encounter with what is perceived to be normality is, essentially, that of _____.

Which of the following is the most likely to be both a symbolic boundary and physical boundary?

Which group is the most likely to perceive others as outsiders?

Simply put, to be "deviant" entails _____.

What key factor played into Cesare Beccaria's formula for making people obey the law?

When is a "deviant" behavior deviant according to most sociologists?

From the point of view of sociology, an Orthodox Jewish school for girls requiring long skirts is _____ compared to the dress code of girls in most public schools.

When a couple gets married and vows to remain faithful, they are expressing a(n) _____.

Which of the following is an example of statistical deviance?

A norm can best be defined as a(n) _____.

Why might a yogi in southern India or a Buddhist monk in Nepal violate a Westerner's so-called "norm of engagement"?

The debtor's prisons of the nineteenth century are good examples of _____.

Which would most likely be a root for the discomfort described by Goffman (1963) in explaining the "norm of engagement"?

What did Durkheim mean by "the unstated terms of the social contract"?

Which group or cause became the primary driver of the Temperance Movement according to the author of this chapter?

The 1919 constitutional amendment that outlawed the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States failed because _____.

The heaviest users of morphine in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were _____.

The great irony in American history is how the "demon rum" of the nineteenth century became a mark of good taste for the social drinker. What reasons would best explain the cause?

The transition of opiate use from an acceptable, if often abused, pain reliever to that of a pleasure-seeking drug also saw a change in _____.

The war on drugs to reduce abuse, protect children, make neighborhoods safer, and the like fell disproportionately on _____, rather than treating the broader spectrum of social ills and classes for which it was intended.

Moral regulation, the effort to legislate morality, is being curbed by what phenomenon?

The widespread use of morphine that followed the Civil War was for what reason?

How does labeling one as deviant reinforce the so-called "deviance"?

Which of the following would best illustrate how sociologists see process as defining deviance?

Edwin Sutherland (1949) coined the term _____ to describe a form of crime that was once not considered a crime that put Americans at risk.

Why is white-collar crime punished disproportionally compared to blue-collar crime?

What criminal activity ultimately brought Enron executives to justice?

When Congress and U.S. presidents altered the _____ that precipitated the S&L crisis and the subprime loan scandal, it was a prime example of how flexible _____ is for those who hold the power.

An act of terrorism can be performed by _____.

One police officer decides to pull over drivers going 10 miles over the speed limit. To make his quota, another police officer decides to pull over drivers going 7 mph over the limit. Who is being fairer?

Why were guerrilla warfare and acts of terrorism rare in history?

Why were the reprehensible acts (humiliation, cultural disrespect, torture, etc.) at the Abu Ghraib prison not a clear case of institutional deviance?

State terrorism is a form of _____.

What is the critical difference between what President Obama did in regard to torture conducted by the military and his predecessor?

A CIA black site is a _____.

What is the deviant behavior of those people complicit in the 2008 U.S. financial crisis?

The deviance implicit in a drone strike is that _____.

Social control requires both _____ and _____.

Probation can best be described as _____.

The author of this chapter proposes that the presidential election of _____ would have had a much different outcome had millions not lost the right to vote in that election decades earlier.

According to current ideology among social scientists, which of the following reasons best explains why the United States is experiencing mass incarceration and has a significantly higher incarceration rate than any other country?

As societies become more complex, _____ even as these societies become more progressive.

The perception that African Americans are lawbreakers began _____.

As one scholar opines, racial makeup of the rising prison population reflects a "new Jim Crow." What is meant by this?

What is the critical difference between jail and prison?

Which of the following statements about the United States is indicative of reality?

Taylor and Ally are attending a home game to cheer on their favorite baseball team. Taylor, like the vast majority of fans in attendance, is wearing the home team's jersey. Ally is wearing a random T-shirt that isn't even the team's color. Ally's behavior is _____.

What is the biggest reason we don't legalize marijuana?