What are the five techniques of neutralization given by Sykes and Matza (1957/1988)?

What will be an ideal response?


In their studies, Sykes and Matza found that boys used five techniques of neutralization to deflect society's norms: denial of responsibility, denial of injury, denial of a victim, condemnation of the condemners, and appeal to higher loyalties.

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A) hospice. B) nursing care. C) hospital based. D) health maintenance organizations.

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While sex role theory argues that gender exists internally as ______, the theory of doing gender portrays gender as ______.

A. norms and expectations; a constant performance B. performance; norms and expectations C. biological imperative; a social construction D. social construction; a biological imperative

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A social scientist would be likely to study the

A. reasons for the decreasing divorce rate in the U.S. B. possibility of life on Mars. C. newest procedure in heart transplant surgery. D. composition of a meteorite discovered in a remote area of Siberia.

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