Why is the relativity of deviance most aligned with the symbolic interactionist perspective?
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Question 2What is the major means of control used by the neocolonialists to maintain global stratification?
A) using military occupation as a form of coercion
B) bribing the country's government officials
C) creating debt along with ever-mounting interest
D) controlling the country's mass media
Question 3Some nations have traditionally been in poverty from one generation to the next, relying on tradition rather than experimenting with new technology that might improve their standard of living.
This explanation for global stratification is called ________.
A) culture of poverty
B) world system theory
C) dependency theory
D) theory of undeveloped nations
Question 4How a society treats its deviants is one measure of how humane it is. What would an examination of prisons and mental hospitals in the United States suggest regarding this standard?
A) The United States is the most humane society in the world.
B) Prisons are a last resort in dealing with deviants.
C) U.S. prisons emphasize prisoner rehabilitation and mental hospitals cure the mentally ill.
D) They are both used as warehouse for the unwanted.
Question 5John Kenneth Galbraith's theory of global stratification, referred to as a culture of poverty, is based on a concept first proposed by ________.
A) Frank Tannenbaun
B) John Hanaway
C) Oscar Lewis
D) William Ogden
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