The social condition in which people find it difficult to guide their behavior by norms they experience as weak unclear or conflicting is called______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. A social condition in which values are conflicting weak or absent is called____________?

   A. Assimilation
   B. Hawthorne affect
   C. invasion
   D. anomie

2. Which sociological perspective examines human activities on the micro level by focusing on how day-to-day social behavior is shaped by the distinctive norms, values and demands of a particular society ?

   A. functionalist perspective
   B. conflict perspective
   C. interactionist perspective
   D. None of these

3. The collective value of all social networks (who people know) and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other (the norms of reciprocity) is called ____________ ??

   A. Social cohesion
   B. Social Capital
   C. Social bond
   D. None of these

4. Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called______________?

   A. social statics
   B. social dynamics
   C. social absolutes
   D. constructed reality

5. ________________ view standards of deviant behavior as merely reflecting cultural norms whereas __________ and _______________ theorists point out that the most powerful groups in a society can shape laws and standards and determine who is (or is not) prosecuted as a criminal ?

   A. conflict theorists’ functionalists labelling
   B. labelling theorists conflict functionalist
   C. functionalists conflict labelling
   D. conflict theorists’ labelling functionalist

6. If we fail to respect and obey social norms we may face punishment through informal or formal ?

   A. techniques of neutralization
   B. deviance
   C. cultural transmission
   D. sanctions

7. What is defined as non-conformity to a given set of norms that are accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society ?

   A. criminality
   B. deviance
   C. recidivism
   D. degeneracy

8. Social norms are______________?

   A. creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork
   B. the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
   C. religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
   D. rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life

9. Social norms are_____________?

   A. creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork
   B. the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
   C. religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
   D. rules and expectation about interaction that regulate social life

10. A ___________ is a substantial number of people who interact on the basis of loosely defined norms ?

    A. craze
    B. group
    C. contagion
    D. collectivity
    E. mob