Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Structural-functionalist perspectives on deviance draw our attention to the roles political and economic power play in our understandings of what is “right” and what is “wrong.”
2. For those who take a relativist perspective on deviance, deviance is a human social construction.
3. When a person has been successfully labeled as deviant, his/her other qualities are overshadowed.
4. According to a relativist perspective on deviance, behavior is either inherently good or bad.
5. A person who is incarcerated for a crime he did not commit would NOT be considered deviant.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False
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