When Becker suggests that society creates deviance he means that
a. society creates differential opportunities for members of different social classes.
b. society creates barriers to normative conformity through dysfunctional families and disorganized neighborhoods.
c. society creates the rules which define deviance and applies the label of deviant to those who are ultimately labeled deviant.
d. society creates deviant groups such as street gangs which foster deviant attitudes and lifestyles.
C
You might also like to view...
Scores for an exam are normally distributed with a mean of 235 and a standard deviation of 52. Identify the scores which correspond to the bottom 5%?
What will be an ideal response?
The following is a hypothesis: “Efficacy will be significantly higher for subjects who read the news on print than for those who read it on a mobile phone.” This hypothesis is which of the following?
a. non-directional b. directional c. false d. differential
______ is considered a worldwide problem that everyone is affected by, although not everyone is affected by it to the same degree.
A. Gentrification B. Urbanism C. Urbanization D. Redevelopment
The _____ refers to the widespread changes in men’s and women’s roles regarding sexuality and a greater public acceptance of sexuality as a normal part of social development.
A. feminist movement B. sexual revolution C. eugenics movement D. gender revolution