According to the differential association theory, people become deviant
a. when other means of achievement are blocked.
b. by learning from members of their primary groups.
c. when they lack attachment to other people.
d. in protest over unjust circumstances.
Question 2Which type of society did Tonnies see as organized on the basis of self-interest?
a. gesellschaft
b. gemeinschaft
c. mechanical solidarity
d. organic solidarity
Question 3According to Sutherland's differential association theory, people become criminals when they
a. are more strongly socialized to break the law than to obey it.
b. are genetically predisposed to deviate.
c. lack socially approved means to realize socially established goals.
d. lack proper attachment to others.
Question 4Tnnies viewed the process of modernization as a progressive loss of
a. gesellschaft
b. gemeinschaft
c. mechanical solidarity
d. organic solidarity
Question 5The University of Chicago sociologist who defined deviance as a normal response to the social conditions in which people find themselves is ______.
a. W. I. Thomas
b. Michael Dyson
c. Talcott Parsons
d. Robert Merton
Question 6What is necessary in order for a social movement to begin?
a. There must be a preexisting communication network.
b. Enough monetary resources to fund an organization
c. Celebrity spokespeople willing to support the issue
d. The certainty that the change in question will be possible to create
Question 7The symbolic interactionist theories of deviance originated from?
a. The Industrial Revolution
b. The perspective of the Chicago School of sociology
c. The works of Karl Marx
d. The ideas of Emile Durkheim
Question 8__________ is the process by which a community acquires the characteristics of city life and the urban end of the ruralurban continuum.
a. Suburbanization
b. Urbanization
c. Urban Sprawl
d. Globalization
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