Social Control, Deviance, and Crime

What is internalization in the context of societal norms?

• When a norm becomes a part of your personality and you follow it automatically

• Rewards and punishments to enforce norms

• Spontaneous expression of approval or disapproval

• Enforcing norms through external means.

Which of the following is an example of a positive sanction?

• A) Punishment for non-conformity

• B) Reward for particular behavior

• C) Threat of punishment

• D) Spontaneous disapproval.

What is social control?

• Enforcing norms through internal or external means

• Reward for particular behavior

• Punishment from a formal organization

• Spontaneous expression of disapproval.

What is considered deviance?

• Any behavior that conforms to social norms

• Any behavior that violates a social norm

• Any behavior that is popular

• Any behavior that is legal.

What happens when others identify you based on deviant behavior?

• It becomes a norm

• It becomes a stigma

• It becomes a law

• It becomes a trend.

Which of the following is a social function of deviance?

• It eliminates boundaries

• It sets apart insiders

• It helps prompt social change by identifying problems

• It discourages job creation.

What does Strain Theory view as the natural outgrowth of the values, norms, and structures of society?

• Conformity

• Deviance

• Innovation

• Ritualism

What does 'Conformity' mean in the context of cultural goals and norms?

• Accepts cultural goals and pursues them through accepted ways

• Accepts cultural goals but uses disapproved ways to achieve them

• Abandons goals but continues to follow society’s norms

• Challenges cultural goals and norms and substitutes new ones.

What is the definition of 'Innovation' in terms of cultural goals?

• Abandons cultural goals and approved ways of achieving them

• Accepts cultural goals but uses disapproved ways to achieve them

• Challenges cultural goals and norms and substitutes new ones

• Accepts cultural goals and pursues them through accepted ways.

How is 'Ritualism' described in relation to cultural goals?

• Abandons goals but continues to follow society’s norms

• Accepts cultural goals but uses disapproved ways to achieve them

• Challenges cultural goals and norms and substitutes new ones

• Abandons cultural goals and approved ways of achieving them.