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Angela Sasser

Jul 31, 2024

Many traditional criminologists,using the positivist perspective,believed that criminals possessed specific biological and psychological traits that made them different from non-criminals.

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Ayshunti Griffin

Jul 31, 2024

According to the positivist perspective,deviance is seen as both real and separate from conforming behavior.

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kristian stevenson

Jul 31, 2024

Early criminologists believed deviance was intrinsically real because they believed criminals possessed

A) a superior way of life.
B) the same biological traits found in non-criminals.
C) a distinctive set of labels that set them apart from non-criminals.
D) certain biological traits absent in non-criminals.

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Dillon Seegolam

Jul 31, 2024

Which ONE of the following questions reflects the labeling perspective on deviance?

A) Why do people become deviant?
B) Why is a given act defined by society as deviant?
C) Why are so many sociologists seen as deviant?
D) Why is deviance an objective fact?

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Corynna Stookey

Jul 31, 2024

If you believe that deviant behavior has characteristics that distinguish it from conforming behavior,you believe deviance is

A) a label.
B) a biased concept.
C) psychologically determined.
D) intrinsically real.

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Jalpa Patel

Jul 31, 2024

Which of the following is NOT one of the three assumptions that the positivist perspective holds on deviant behavior?

A) Deviance is absolutely real.
B) Deviance is determined by the individual's free will.
C) Deviance is an observable fact.
D) Deviance is determined by forces beyond the individual's control.

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Stephen Holden

Jul 31, 2024

Determinist,objectivist,and absolutist are other terms for aspects of the __________ perspective on deviance.

A) constructionist
B) humanist
C) modern
D) positivist

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Tyler Hazlett

Jul 31, 2024

Before the twentieth century,criminals were thought to

A) have certain familial characteristics that noncriminals did not.
B) be feebleminded,psychotic,neurotic,psychopathic,or otherwise mentally disturbed.
C) have the same mental and physical characteristics as noncriminals.
D) be the result of different social factors.

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eleanor capiral

Jul 31, 2024

Constructionists tend to present deviants as basically the same as conventional people.

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Iconic Dreams

Jul 31, 2024

According to constructionist sociologists using the labeling perspective,if deviant behavior is not labeled as such,the behavior is not seen as deviant.

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Kendra Smarsty

Jul 31, 2024

Sociologists using the constructionist perspective believe that deviants are passive objects whose behavior is determined by the environment.

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Michael Simpson

Jul 31, 2024

Which of the following is one reason why,for U.S.citizens,deviant behavior is more or less,rather than completely,deviant?

A) Most deviance in the United States is low-consensus deviance.
B) The causes of deviance are largely unknown.
C) U.S. society is pluralistic.
D) Most people in the United States are immoral.

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Swift Huang

Jul 31, 2024

Today's positivist sociologists now recognize the importance of __________ for understanding deviant behavior.

A) religion
B) psychological traits
C) heredity
D) social factors

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Julie Kathryn

Jul 31, 2024

Positivists treat deviance as if it were unpleasant and harmful to society,while constructionists

A) have an appreciation for and empathy with deviants.
B) emphasize the importance of social control of deviant behavior.
C) stress the importance of being deviant themselves.
D) study the biological aspects of human behavior.

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Natasha Taylor

Jul 31, 2024

Definitions of deviance fall into two opposing perspectives,the positivist and the

A) traditional.
B) moral.
C) constructionist.
D) modernist.

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Clint Kruppa

Jul 31, 2024

According to the constructionist perspective,deviant behavior is

A) determined behavior.
B) an expression of human volition.
C) robot-like behavior.
D) passive reaction to social forces.

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Jalen Barnes

Jul 31, 2024

Which of the following statements about the definition of deviance is TRUE?

A) Almost all persons in a society will agree on the nature of deviant behavior.
B) Definitions of deviant behavior are determined by a nation's economy.
C) There is usually a great deal of disagreement among people as to what they consider deviant.
D) Few persons in a society are concerned about the definition of deviance.

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Hannah Fisher

Jul 31, 2024

According to sociologists who study the role of power in the definition of deviance,deviance is any act that

A) violates the criminal law.
B) violates deeply held moral values.
C) the powerful consider to be a violation of some social rule.
D) involves the behavior of the poor.

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Johnny Dominguez

Jul 31, 2024

Because they consider deviance real,positivist sociologists tend to focus their study on

A) the positive ways in which nondeviants view those who have been labeled deviant.
B) lawmakers and law enforcers.
C) nondeviants who label others deviants rather than deviant behavior and persons.
D) deviant behavior and persons rather than nondeviants who label others deviants.

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Jordyn Flora

Jul 31, 2024

To constructionist sociologists,deviant behavior is an observable object in that a deviant person is like an object,a real something that can be studied objectively.

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