Sociology - Cultural Transmission Theory

Cultural Transmission Theory suggests deviance is learned by interactions with other people

• TRUE

• FALSE

Social relationships that are oriented towards particular types of people is known as

• Age of contact

• Bad companians formula

• Differential association

• Conformity

"He was such a good kid until he got in with that crowd" is called

• Bad companions formula

• Differential association

• Interaction

• Intensity of contacts

Whether you become deviant or not is influenced by which three factors?

• Age of contact

• Intensity of contact

• Ratio of conatct

• Differential contact

The sociologist/s associated with Cultural Transmission Theory is

• Travis Hirshi

• Lemert and Becker

• Robert Merton

• Edwin Sutherland

The cultural tranmission theory cannot explain why

• Conformity to subcultural norms

• People in high crime neighbourhoods don't become criminals

• People join Biker gangs

• People who grow up with lots of deviants become criminals

Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions. This is considered devaint to wider society however they are just

• Conforming to their sub-cultural norms

• Being Deviants

• Going against society

• engaging in Cultural Transmission

Which year is associated with Cultural Transmission Theory

• 2021

• 1937

• 1949

• 1939

Cultural Transmission Theory explains why criminals and other deviants relapse inot their former behaviour after prison or treatment

• FALSE

• TRUE

Cultural Transmission Theory explains how deviance is

• Relative

• Learned

• Arose in the culture in the first place

• Transmitted from one culture to the next