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The challenge to effective social control is that people often receive competing messages about how to behave. |
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Stanley Milgram used the term "obedience" to mean going along with peers who have no special right to direct our behavior. |
| | A) | True |
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Informal social control is carried out by authorized agents, such as managers of movie theaters. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Law may be defined as government social control. |
| | A) | True |
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Sociologists see the creation of laws as a social process. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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For sociologists, the term "deviance" does not mean perversion or depravity. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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From a sociological perspective, deviance is objective or set in stone. |
| | A) | True |
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According to the conflict perspective, deviance is a common part of human existence, with positive (as well as negative) consequences for social stability. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Sociologist Robert Merton introduced the term "anomie" into the sociological literature to describe a loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective. |
| | A) | True |
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Edwin Sutherland used the term "differential association" to describe the process through which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Social disorganization theory attributes increases in crime and deviance to the absence or breakdown of communal relationships and social institutions. |
| | A) | True |
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Another name for labeling theory is cultural transmission theory. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Income-tax evasion, stock manipulation, consumer fraud, and bribery are all examples of organized crime. |
| | A) | True |
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In general, victimization surveys question police officers to determine how many people have been victims of crime. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Viewed from a conflict perspective, sanctions against deviant acts help to reinforce society's standards of proper behavior. |
| | A) | True |
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