Can perceptions of deviance change over time? Justify your answer.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Perceptions of deviance can change over time. Many behaviors that were acceptable in the past are now seen as deviant. Only during the 1980s and 1990s did U.S. laws define date rape, marital rape, stalking, and child abuse as crimes. Smoking-widely accepted in the past-has been banned in most public places.On the other hand, most Americans now shrug off behaviors that were stigmatized in the past. Cohabitation, seen as sinful and immoral 40 years ago, is now widespread and considered normal. And Americans' support for legalizing marijuana for recreational use increased from only 12 percent in 1969 to 60 percent in 2016 (Geiger, 2016).
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a. consistently declined over the past few decades. b. increased each year since the late 1950s. c. regularly increased in times of recession and depression. d. remained about the same over the past 30 years.
Smith and Jones reported that male cartoon characters were more likely than female cartoon characters to be depicted as villains X2 (1 ) = 13.28, p = .02. Is this result statistically significant? (Yes or No)
What will be an ideal response?
In the years from 1900 to the present, life expectancyhas
a. been greater for women. b. been greater for men. c. remained approximately the same. d. doubled.
Sociobiology is the systematic study of
A. the interactions between humans and higher animal forms. B. the social bases of biological behavior. C. how biology affects human social behavior. D. the social structure within the animal kingdom.