A. New Left Realism
B. Right Realism
C. new criminology
D. interactionism
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Which of the following statements about crime and deviance is false ?
A. the concept of ‘deviance’ is much broader than ‘crime’
B. deviance and crime very often overlap
C. the concept of deviance can be applied to individuals and groups
D. deviance is normally sanctioned by law - Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual but a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?
A. labelling theory
B. control theory
C. functionalist theory
D. conflict theory - An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class she gives the students essay s She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the_______________?
A. control group
B. representative group
C. experimental group
D. correlation group - An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning In one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the______________?
A. control group
B. representative group
C. experimental group
D. correlation group - Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?
A. labelling theory
B. control theory
C. functionalist theory
conflict theory - Which of the following argued that a capitalist society has a dominant ideology that serves the interests of the ruling class ?
A. Max Weber
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Karl Marx
D. Margaret Mead
