The sociological contribution to understanding deviant behavior is the emphasis on
a. the individual.
b. universal ideas about what is deviance.
c. the context.
d. obedience to authority.
c
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a) 1,000 b) 2,000 c) 4,000 d) 5,000
A(n) __________ is a number of people who may never have met one another but share a similar characteristic
a. social group b. category c. aggregate d. secondary category
Weber maintained that with industrialization, behavior was less likely to be guided by and more likely to be instrumental-rational
a. efficiency. b. subjective meaning. c. tradition. d. logic.
A similarity between differential association and deterrence theories is that they both:
a. see deviance as the result of social inequality. b. view deviance results, at least in part, because there are greater rewards for deviance than for conformity. c. locate the source of deviance in the social structure. d. see deviance as the result of strain between goals and means of attaining them.