Joining a deviant subculture – rarely ever happens

Joining a deviant subculture – rarely ever happens

Subject: Sociology    / General Sociology
Question

QUESTION 1

Joining a deviant subculture:

rarely ever happens

is difficult due to genetic determinism

always increases the amount of social rejection a deviant experiences

helps a deviant cope with social rejection

5 points

QUESTION 2

Which of the following theorists most influenced the conflict perspective?

Weber

Marx

Durkheim

Comte

5 points

QUESTION 3

Psychiatric perspectives on deviance treat culture as:

the principal cause of deviance

if it doesn’t even exist

merely a context in which individuals express their deviant tendencies

previously important but no longer important since the development of behavior modifying drugs such as Prozac as well as new counseling-therapeutic treatments

5 points

QUESTION 4

The balance of recent research on deviance and crime indicates that:

Genetic dispositions are the principal predictor of deviance and crime

Biochemical composition is the principal predictor of deviance and crime

Biological factors are either weakly related or unrelated to deviance and crime

Children always grow up to act exactly the way their parents teach them

5 points

QUESTION 5

“You engage in deviant behavior because your superego is too weak to control your wild and crazy id.” This statement exemplifies which of the following perspectives on deviance?

behavior-modification psychology and psychiatry

psychoanalysis

anthropology

sociology

5 points

QUESTION 6

Anomie theory has been criticized for promoting the idea that:

deviance chiefly occurs in the lower classes

deviance is not a relative concept

some people are just born to be deviant

biochemical factors are the main cause of deviance