Chambliss's study of the Saints and Roughnecks shows
a. males, especially those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, are more likely to engage in serious forms of delinquency than are females.
b. how being in the "wrong place at the wrong time" can result in some groups being labeled deviant while others are seen as legitimate.
c. how the power of social class facilitates labeling some groups as deviant and others as legitimate even though behavior of both is similar.
d. the power of schools and the police to reinforce positive values and social bonds for some groups of students, thereby preventing delinquency.
C
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a. restricting poor people's access to resources through official and government approved channels b. ensuring that that the poor can only benefit from social service programs c. limiting the poor to income generating activities d. ensuring the poor have access to capital through micro-credit enterprises leading to poverty.
Which of the following is true of living together and subsequent marital stability?
a. living together protects a couple from getting divorced b. it is the age at which people begin to live together that impacts divorce c. cohabitants don't know how to be happily married (they are too used to their freedom) d. cohabitation destroys the chance that a couple can be happy in marriage
The universal cultural norms that govern sexual behavior include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. homosexuality b. incest taboo c. marriage d. heterosexuality
Max Weber's concept of ______ refered to a community of people who share a similar lifestyle.
a. party b. status c. the proletariat d. class