Which of the following kinds of deviance is best understood through a positivist perspective?

a) higher-consensus deviance
b) lower-consensus deviance
c) immoral deviance
d) criminal deviance


a) higher-consensus deviance

Sociology

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a. true b. false

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a. job segregation b. opposition to public bus service to malls c. racial profiling by clerks and security guards d. all of these answers are correct

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