Exam 6: Deviance

_____ is the illegal and/or socially harmful behaviors that result from deliberate decision making by corporate executives for the benefit of their organizations.

Edwin Sutherland's theory of _____ proposes that procriminal sentiments are acquired by association with other individuals in a process of social interaction.

The person-blame approach results in the advantaged segments of society

The term "deviance" refers to

In Freudian theory, the deviant is a person who has not developed an adequate ______ to control the _______ .

Caesare Lombroso's biological theory that criminals _____ has been substantially discredited.

Violators of important social norms are often _____; that is, they are set apart by being socially disgraced.

Until the Supreme Court decision of June, 2015, Chris could marry Robin in some but not all states only if one of them was male and the other female. This is an example of the chapter's assertion that _____ shows that deviance is relative.

The _____ approach to social problems focuses on laws and customs of society, which are seen as constructed to serve the powerful; consequently, the solution to deviance is to restructure society instead of rehabilitating the criminal.

A strength of the labeling theory is that it

_____ proposed that people turn to deviance because they are denied access to legitimate means of achieving the goals of society.

Deviance is _____, meaning that social organizations create definitions of right and wrong by originating norms, the infraction of which constitutes deviance.

According to a 2010 taxpayer attitude survey, _____ of people believe that it is acceptable to cheat on income taxes.

_____ theorists argue that deviance is not limited to troubled individuals, because organizations also can be deviant.

Within a society, certain groups have more _____ than others, so they have more success in getting their definitions of deviance to prevail.

Who wrote a book about how the Internet has upped the ante regarding deviance and public shame?

Some studies have shown that more than _____ of prison inmates are functionally illiterate.

The chapter notes that "Web sites are increasingly naming names, or at least posting descriptions, pictures, and license plate numbers, of people supposedly caught in the act of violating social norms." These types of Web sites are also known as

The most serious deficiency of labeling theory is that it

The sociological theories that focus on _____ are based on the empirical observations that crime and mental illness rates vary by social location; that is, by social class, ethnicity, race, place of residence, and sex.