Explain why sociologist Emile Durkheim believed that deviance was functional for society. What ...

Explain why sociologist Emile Durkheim believed that deviance was functional for society.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to the __________ approach, if society is to operate as a stable system, it is important for people to be healthy and to contribute to their society. Consequently, sickness is viewed as a form of deviant behavior that must be controlled by society.
 
  a. conflict b. symbolic interactionist
 c. functionalist d. postmodernist

Question 3

Deviant behaviors may include the following: suicide, abortion, homosexuality, prostitution, and illegal drug use. Provide a response that supports your position on whether or not each of the specific behavior mentioned is deviant. Then provide a specific circumstance in which the behavior would contradict your initial position.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

Although the family of orientation is based exclusively on blood ties, the family of procreation may be based on both blood and legal ties
 
  a. True
 b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 5

If all forms of alternative medicine (including chiropractic, massage, and spiritual) are taken into account, people spend _____ money on unconventional therapies than they do for all hospitalizations.
 
  a. hardly any b. about the same amount of
 c. less d. more

Question 6

Define deviance in your own words. Identify and discuss what you think are the five most deviant acts that you can imagine a person doing.
 
  What will be an ideal response?