SOCE Final UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SOCE Final UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Howard Becker - Correct Answer- a sociologist who argued that deviant behavior is only
deviant because people label it as deviant
Conformity - Correct Answer- Merton defined this as meaning that the person accepted the
cultural goal and ...
SOCE Final UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Howard Becker - Correct Answer- a sociologist who argued that deviant behavior is only
deviant because people label it as deviant
Conformity - Correct Answer- Merton defined this as meaning that the person accepted the
cultural goal and used acceptable ways of trying to reach this goal
Control Theory - Correct Answer- Identifies four different types of social control that keep
people conforming to society's norms. The theory was developed by Hirschi.
Courts - Correct Answer- Determine whether the indivudal is innocent or guilty
Crime - Correct Answer- Breaking one of society's official criminal laws
Crimes against property - Correct Answer- Those that involve the theft of something that
belongs to someone else. These crimes are also known as property crimes.
Criminal Justice System - Correct Answer- Society's formal response to crime
Detterence - Correct Answer- Discouraging crime because of the consequences
Deviance - Correct Answer- The violation of a culture's norms
Travis Hirschi - Correct Answer- The sociologist who developed control theory
Innovation - Correct Answer- In strain theory, this means accepting the goal but using
unacceptable, or deviant, ways of reaching this goal
Labeling theory - Correct Answer- States that deviance occurs not because of what people do
but how people respond to those actions
, Cesare Lombroso - Correct Answer- An Italian physician who argued that certain body
features, such as low foreheads and long arms, could be used to identify those with criminal
tendencies.
Robert Merton - Correct Answer- sociologist who developed strain theory
Police - Correct Answer- Help maintain peace and public order by enforcing the formal laws
within a society
Rebellion - Correct Answer- Merton defined this as choosing to identity new goals and new
means to reach them
Recidivism - Correct Answer- Crimes committed by someone who has already been
convicted of another crime
Retreatism - Correct Answer- Happens when the individual rejects the cultural goal and the
means.
Ritualism - Correct Answer- Occurs when people reject the goal, but continue to use the
accepted means of reaching the goal.
Social Control - Correct Answer- Refers to the ways that a society keeps a people from
breaking the laws and norms
Stigmas - Correct Answer- Very powerful labels that change a person's identity
Strain theory - Correct Answer- Explores different ways that people might react to cultural
goals and the institutionalized means, or ways of reaching those goals.
Victimless crimes - Correct Answer- Those that don't have a clear victim. Some of the crimes
that fall into this category are prostitution, illegal drug use, and gambling.
White collar crimes - Correct Answer- Those committed while doing business, such as
cheating on taxes, bribery, and embezzling funds from a company.
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