QUIZ #7 - OCTOBER 6
Quiz 7 - October 6
1. According to Matza's theory of neutralization, somebody who
smacks somebody else upside the head with a baseball bat, and then
claims the person had it to do it because it was expected by the rules
of the gang is engaging in:
a) Denial of responsibility
b) Denial of injury
c) Denial of a victim
**d) Appeal to higher authority or values
e) Appeal to the understanding of the condemners
2. Which of the following is NOT a variable associated with
Sutherland's theory of differential association?
a) Duration
b) Importance
c) Frequency
d) Intensity (proximity)
**e) Visibility
3. You can't get a job, can't get into school, and your life is the pits.
So, you start doing drugs and drinking. In Merton's anomie theory, this
is an example of:
a) Innovation
**b) Retreatism
c) Conformity
d) Rebellian
e) Ritualism
4. The view that people may engage in "deviant/delinquent" acts when
they don't have access to legitimate means to achieve socially
accepted goals is associated with which theorist?
**a) Merton
b) Marx
c) Thomas
d) Sutherland
e) The Chicago School
5. The view that there were fewer car thiefs in 1900 because
there were fewer cars to steal would be most closely associated
with:
a) Differential Association theory
**b) Differential Opportunity theory
c) Anomie theory
d) Differential Oppression theory
e) Drift theory
6. Anomie means
a) Immorality
**b) Normlessness
c) "weak will"
d) Suicidal tendencies
e) Feeling self-important
7. During the Second World War, Christians living in Nazi Germany had to
choose between trying to protect Jewish friends by NOT
turning them in to the authorities as instructed or violating law.
This is an example of:
a) Role ambiguity
b) Culture conflict
**c) Role conflict
d) Dysfunctional prerequisites
e) Culture shock
8. The concept of THE LOOKING GLASS SELF is associated with:
a) George Herbert Mead
b) Erving Goffman
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Carol Gilligan
**e) Charles H. Cooley (right answer)
9. According to lecture, which of the following IS NOT
a feature of conflict theory:
a) Societies are at every moment subject to change
b) Every society experiences conflict at every moment
**c) The normal state of affairs in society is harmny
d) Every element in a society contributes to change
e) Every society rests on constraint of members
10. Which of the following IS NOT a necessary characteristic of small groups?
**a) Composed of 10 or less people
b) Talk with each other
c) Be acquainted with each other
d) Interact simultaneously
e) All of the above are characteristics