Carl participated in a protest against police brutality. During the protest, a few members of the protest group started vandalizing public property. Carl, who is otherwise calm and controlled, also joined them in vandalizing the property. In this scenario, Carl's behavior illustrates _____.
A. contagion theory
B. convergence theory
C. emergent norm theory
D. structural strain theory
E. value-added theory
Answer: A
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1. The Arab population in the United States is about 1 percent of the total U.S. population. 2. Early Arab migrants from Syria and Lebanon were defined as "white" when they arrived in the United States. 3. The 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act gave the government broad enforcement powers. 4. The events surrounding 9-11 have escalated hate crimes against Arab Americans. 5. The median family income among Arab Americans is lower than that of the total population.
Travis Hirschi's social control theory focuses on why people do not commit deviant acts.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Society cannot be understood without examining the role and experience of women, racial minorities, and those at the bottom of class hierarchies.
What will be an ideal response?
The claim made by Marshall McLuhan is that _____.
a. media is simply a process that has nothing to do with the information they transmit" b. media is always in the middle" c. the medium is the message" because inevitably it shapes what it transmits d. there can be no objective truth"