Explain the impact of social location on deviance.
What will be an ideal response?
Social location, or where one resides in a system of social stratification, is central in the labeling perspective. The power to define others as deviant and to resist having the label applied to oneself is linked to social position. Those with greater power are better able to resist deviant labeling even when their behavior does not differ from that of the less powerful deviant.
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a. seniors want to be independent like everyone else. b. society remains orderly by disengaging aging people from positions of responsibility. c. aging people do not require as much care as most people think they do. d. seniors want to remain active.
Poston and Bouvier in the P&S textbook define a population as a/an:
a. group or collection of demographics b. group or collection of societies c. group or collection of people d. society of multicultural people e. numerical representation of variables
In the United States, before 1900, pursuing personal pleasures and emotional satisfactions were not as predominant among Americans, primarily because they were too busy simply trying to live.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
What did WASPs, who settled the east coast of the United States, typically believe in?
A. racial superiority B. multiculturalism C. pluralism D. economic superiority