Fred is a intelligent student Last year he was on the honor roll This year he began hanging out with friends who spend more time playing video games than studying they routinely earn C, s and D, s Over time Fred slowly stops doing his homework and turning in work for extra credit. He drops out of his honors classes and his grades drop out from mostly A, s to C, s Which theory of deviance best explains what has happened here ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Robert Merton’s ideas on crime and deviance make use of the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Merton’s work ?

   A. Normlessness
   B. meaninglessness
   C. social strain
   D. social adaptation

2. In their study of deviance control theory advocates ask ?

   A. Why are people deviant?
   B. why are people not deviant?
   C. How does labeling contribute to deviance?
   D. How does structural strain contribute to deviance

3. According to Merton the most common adaptation in the anomie theory of deviance is_____________?

   A. conformity
   B. innovation
   C. ritualism
   D. rebellion

4. Sutherland’s Differential Association theory emphasizes that crime and deviance are basically______________?

   A. due to poor parenting
   B. learned
   C. psychotic
   D. biological
   E. the result of being labelled

5. The of “who defines deviance” has principally been addressed by what sociological theory ?

   A. Differential Association
   B. Conflict
   C. Positivism
   D. Social Control
   E. Functionalism

6. Conflict theory’s primary suggestion for reducing crime and deviance involves the_____________?

   A. Substantial reduction of economic inequality
   B. Subordination of the agents of social control
   C. redefinition of acts that are currently defined as criminal
   D. amelioration of social welfare activities
   E. repression of lower-class gang activities

7. What sociological theory of crime and deviance emphasizes sub-cultural belief systems as a major contributor to crime ?

   A. Social Control theory
   B. Anomie theory
   C. Lower Class Focal Value theory
   D. Social Process theory
   E. Strain theory

8. Turning points, a which people change direction in the course of their lives are_______________?

   A. age norms
   B. life events
   C. social clocks
   D. remarkably similar for men and women

9. During the Second World War Christians living in Nazi Germany had to choose between trying to protect Jewish friends and associates and turning them in to the authorities This is an example of____________?

   A. cultural universalism
   B. role strain
   C. functional prerequisites
   D. role conflict

10. The process of turning the class concept into something measurable is called_____________?

    A. operational research
    B. modus operandum
    C. operationalization
    D. operant conditioning