Crime is a violation of
A. criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
B. societal standards and is punished with informal sanctions.
C. informal norms that are sanctioned with stigmas.
D. normative behaviors that are considered by society to be proper conduct.
A. criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
According to the structural-functional theory, the expressive role is best carried out by the ________
A) wife B) husband C) children D) grandparents
Most identify theft is done by
a) Eastern European countries. b) organization or corporate insiders. c) bright teenagers. d) cyber-pornographers.
What do Captain America, Rip Van Winkle, and the film Goodbye, Lenin have in common?
a. They were all written by women who had to earn a living after being divorced b. Their authors were blacklisted as communists during the “Red Scare” led by Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s c. All are about men who never seem to have a job or work for a living d. Each experiences a lapse of time, the comparisons of which (earlier and later) reveal significant social change