Exam 6: Social Control

The apprehension and punishment of criminals is not a major goal of government.

The Communist hysteria of the 1940s led to the peak of the American government's surveillance of its citizens.

Eugenics, which is the improvement of the human race through the control of hereditary factors, is the ultimate form of social control.

The notion that sports is a means of upward social mobility for large numbers of the lower classes is

Marx's statement that religion is an opiate of the masses implies that religion persuades people to accept the unjust system rather than work to change it.

Sarah J. McCarthy is quoted as saying that the U.S. schools socialize students to become rational and skeptical individuals, capable of independent thought, who can disobey or disagree at the critical moment.

Surveillance of Americans by the government reached its peak during

Attacks on competing ideologies by politicians, pastors, teachers, and other people in authority is not a form of ideological social control.

In attempting to establish social control, society targets the poor, the mentally ill, criminals, and political dissidents as deviant.

In small, homogenous societies, which are less affected by the forces of tradition and are more diverse, social control tends to be more formal and repressive.

According to Parenti's analysis of the media, the viewer is taught that society's problems are due to flaws in the social system.

Identify which of the following is/are the assumption(s) of the conflict theorists.

The formal system of education refuses to be a societal agent for conformity.

Social control is more difficult in the United States because the society is

________ assume that, when domestic order prevails and challenges to the economic and political system are successfully thwarted, the interests of the ruling class are served.

Because of the excesses of the FBI and other goverment agencies during the 1960s and 70s, which president issued an executive order placing greater controls over these agencies?

Aldous Huxley, in his novel, 1984, predicted that the government would use sophisticated electronic devices to monitor every word, every thought, and every facial expression of citizens.

The Meidung is applied more frequently to ________ and ________ .

The term ________ refers to the efforts by President George W. Bush and the members of his cabinet to convince the public, following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, that we must come together against the terrorist threat and that we must spend more to enhance our security.

If current trends continue, the gap between the haves and the have-nots will continue to decrease.