According to William Sheldon, someone belonging to which of the following types is MOST likely to commit a crime?
a. lactomorphs
b. mesomorphs
c. ectomorphs
d. endomorphs
Question 2According to the research done by Seymour Lipset, which of the following is a consequence of democratic regimes?
a. dictatorships
b. bureaucracies
c. totalitarian regimes
d. communist regimes
Question 3According to William Sheldon's classification system, people who were soft or fat belonged in which of the following groups?
a. ectomorphs
b. endomorphs
c. lactomorphs
d. mesomorphs
Question 4Which of the following is NOT an element of the pluralist model of American politics?
a. Elite groups compete with one another for political influence.
b. Elite groups do not exist in American society.
c. Interest groups influence political decisions through a process of coalition building and bargaining.
d. No single group controls political decisions.
Question 5According to William Sheldon, which of the following was correlated with crime?
a. body type
b. IQ
c. personality
d. XY chromosome abnormality
Question 6Which of the following states that no single group controls political decisions but instead a variety of interest groups influence those decisions through a process of coalition building and bargaining?
a. the ecological model
b. the functionalist model
c. the pluralist model
d. the power elite model
Question 7Cesare Lombroso argued that criminals are:
a. individuals attempting to achieve socially legitimate goals through disapproved means
b. the products of a criminal subculture
c. the products of inadequate socialization
d. throwbacks to primitive, aggressive human types
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