How does labeling one as deviant reinforce the so-called "deviance"?
a. It becomes a "self-fulfilling prophecy," thereby proving the person is a deviant after all.
b. Once labeled a deviant, an individual's actions are more closely scrutinized by others, improving the odds that the person will be caught in further acts of deviance.
c. The person consciously accepts the premise of those in social control.
d. Deviance becomes a form of social acceptance, that is, what society expects of the deviant.
b
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a. they are too hard b. they test not only IQ but also acquired knowledge c. not everyone takes them so we can't make reliable comparisons d. they keep changing all the time
Blauner's __________ certainly applies to the segment of the black population that is trapped in a culture of poverty
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A) Try to disprove the hypothesis that it does work B) Try to prove the hypothesis that it does work C) Try to disprove the hypothesis that it does not work D) Try to prove the hypothesis that it does not work
When solving the formula for finding Z(obtained) with sample proportions in the two-sample case, we must first estimate
a. the standard deviation of the population b. the population proportion c. the ratio of the sample proportions d. the critical region