Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick testified that when at the Abu Ghraib Prison I questioned some of the things that I saw such as leaving inmates in their cells with no clothes or in female underpants and the answer I got was This is how military intelligence wants it done.' The dynamics Frederick described best correspond with
a. Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority.
b. Howard Becker's master status of deviant.
c. Robert K. Merton's theory of structural strain.
d. Edward Sutherland's theory of differential association.
Question 2The research process involves how many steps?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 8
D. 6
Question 3Which one of the following statements about norms is considered false?
a. Norms exist for virtually every kind of situation.
b. Norms vary by group.
c. Norms exist to prevent harm to self and others.
d. Norms are not enforced uniformly.
Question 4Marx defined the task of the sociologist as analyzing and explaining ______.
A. Social action
B. Solidarity
C. Conflict
D. Sympathetic knowledge
Question 5Facial hair or a chin strap slightly off angle is treated as a crime in military boot camps. This situation suggests that something is criminal because
a. the group has defined it as such.
b. it causes harm to others.
c. deviance exists in every social setting.
d. there are no exceptions to the rule.
Question 6The most well-known work by Karl Marx?
A. The First Circle
B. The Communist Manifesto
C. The Little Red Book
D. The State and Revolution
Question 7Sociologist Kingsley Dennis recounts the case of a South Korean girl harassed unmercifully over the internet for not picking up after her dog. Her transgression was caught on tape and posted to the internet. Dennis called this harassment
a. group think. c. censorship.
b. virtual vigilantism. d. a witch hunt.
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