According to Vandiver, Giacopassi, and Gathje"s article, "‘I Hope Someone Murders

Your Mother!': Extreme Support for the Death Penalty," extreme death penalty supporters
regard opposition to the death penalty as:

a. an endorsement or minimization of the offenders' crimes.
b. a lack of sympathy for the victims.
c. an undermining of the legitimate authorities and ties that unite society against the
threatening criminal forces.
d. all of the above


D

Sociology

You might also like to view...

Opponents of the Afrocentric perspective see it as ________

a. a cultural resistance against assimilation with the dominant group b. an attempt of the African people to come to full self-determination c. a movement against White and Eurocentric intellectual interpretations d. a separatist view of history and culture that distorts past and present

Sociology

In an interactive relationship, the conditional distributions of Y in the partial tables would be and the conditional distributions of Y in the bivariate table would be

a. different from each other, different from the partial tables b. the same, different from the partial tables c. different from each other, the same as the partial tables d. the same, the same as the partial tables

Sociology

A researcher is comparing random samples of white, black, and Hispanic Americans for differences in income, family size, and years of education. Which of the following tests of significance would be useful for all three dependent variables?

a. t test for small samples b. t test for difference in means c. ANOVA d. the test for the significance of the difference between sample proportions

Sociology

Comte, Spencer, Durkheim, Weber, and Marx all witnessed what major societal change?

a. Values related to marriage were under attack as society grew rapidly. b. Growth in factory production made labor more democratic. c. Better printing and communications led to the rapid spread of new ideas. d. European royalty partnered with elected parliaments, causing more social tension. e. Tradition was undermined by the industrial revolution, political conflict, and growth in urban society.

Sociology