Edwin Sutherland’s differential association theory links deviance to:
a. how others respond to the behavior in question.
b. the amount of contact a person has with others who encourage or discourage conventional behavior.
c. how well a person can contain deviant impulses.
d. how others respond to the race, ethnicity, gender, and class of the individual.
b. the amount of contact a person has with others who encourage or discourage conventional behavior.
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Jealousy differs from envy in that jealousy
(a) involves fear of an outside person (b) has a more hostile tone (c) is deeper and more profound (d) both a and c
Parents' control and dominance of the children
a. can never foster intimacy b. can foster intimacy only as long as the parents' power is accepted as legitimate by the children c. can foster intimacy only as long as the parents' power is accepted as legitimate by both parents and the children d. is never accepted as legitimate by children.
In a(n) _____, there's little or no attempt to get a representative cross section of the population.
A. convenience sample B. nonprobability sample C. nonjudgmental sample D. independent sample E. constant sample
As nuclear families replace extended families in industrial societies, older people no longer reside with their adult children. The role of the elderly in retaining and disseminating information has diminished in industrial societies. The elderly have lost much of their economic power. Sociologist Donald O. Cowgill has hypothesized that:
a. The status and role of the elderly in the future will increase because the birthrate has dropped to an all-time low. b. There will be an elderly revolution, termed the “silver-haired rebellion,” which will place much of the lost power and status back into the hands of the older segment of society. c. As the rate of technological change accelerates, knowledge quickly becomes obsolete, and this decreases the status and role of the elderly (they are no longer the storage houses of technological knowledge; libraries and databanks have taken over this role). d. In the future, there will be a major reorganization of kinship and the family, which will restore power to the elderly.