The sociologist responsible for the modern-day adaptation of strain theory is______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. What sociologist was responsible for developing the concept of anomie ?

   A. Comte
   B. Rousseau
   C. Mead
   D. Locke
   E. Durkheim

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

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

3. According to Strain theory, retreatants are likely to engage in what type of deviant activity ?

   A. Sexual assault
   B. terrorism
   C. counterfeiting
   D. drug abuse
   E. robbery

4. According to Strain theory, ____ are those individuals who have traditional success goals but substitute deviant means by which to achieve them ?

   A. ritualists
   B. ret realists
   C. rebels
   D. innovators
   E. conformists

5. It is very important to Sammi to do well in school, so she regularly cheats on tests According to Merton’s structural strain theory Sammi is a(n) ?

   A. conformist
   B. innovator
   C. ritualist
   D. retreatist

6. Which sociologist distinguished between significant others and generalized others ?

   A. George Herbert Mead
   B. Charles Horton Cooley
   C. Erving Goffman
   D. W.I Thomas

7. Which of the following perhaps the first sociologist to recognize the critical importance of religion in human societies stressed the social impact of religion ?

   A. Max Weber
   B. Emile Durkheim
   C. Karl Marx
   D. Talcott Parsons

8. Which sociologist writing in 1906 noted that individuals make distinctions between members of their own group (thein-group) and everyone else (the out-group) ?

   A. Charles Horton Cooley
   B. Emile Durkheim
   C. William I. Thomas
   D. William Graham Sumner

9. Which sociologist saw that the “definition of the situation “could mold the thinking and personality of the individual ?

   A. Philip Zimbardo
   B. Herbert Blumer
   C. William I. Thomas
   D. Erving Goggman

10. Sociologist Alvin Goldner sees Erving Goffman’s work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo especially social class inequalities Gouldner,s critique is associated with the_____________?

    A. functionalist perspective
    B. conflict perspective
    C. interactionist perspective
    D. psychoanalytic perspective