In Miller v. California, the Supreme Court argued that certain materials can be classified as obscene and banned if an average person applying contemporary community standards would find all of the following except that:
a. it appeals to prurient interests in sex
b. it brings sexual satisfaction
c. it describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way
d. it lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value
b
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One strand of structural-functionalism focuses on ______, in which society has many different players who compete for access to political power.
A. group pluralism B. power elites C. citizens D. elite pluralism
Type of society in which disease is a matter that involves the entire community:
A) associational B) industrial C) postindustrial D) communal
According to Adams, by the beginning of the twentieth century, attitudes toward tattooing were being negatively influenced by the sociobiological perspectives of criminologists such as ________________
a. Karl Marx b. Cesare Lombroso c. Emile Durkheim d. Max Weber
According to the researchers of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, ________ is a predictor of a defendant's behavior.
A. criminal record B. educational background C. medical history D. cognitive ability