Question

Which one of these thinkers studied suicide and social attachment?

Emile Durkheim

Auguste Comte

C. Wright Mills

None of the Above

Receiving a raise from your job is an example of which type of sanction?

Informal

Positive

Negative

None of the above

The argument that deviance is useful to society because it can challenge unjust laws and policies is an example of:

Structural Functionalism

Conflict

Symbolic Interactionism

The Civil rights movement is an example of:

Structural Functionalism

Conflict

Symbolic Interactionism

The judicial system is important to society as it punishes criminals

Structural Functionalism

Conflict

Symbolic Interactionism

The widening of the wealth gap

Structural Functionalism

Conflict

Symbolic Interactionism

Which theory believes that weak social ties leads to deviance?

Strain Theory

Social Disorganization Theory

Power Elite

Labeling Theory

In the summer, there is an increase of murders and ice cream consumption, this is seen as a:

Correlation

Causation

All of the above

None of the above I need help on all of these.

Answer 1

1. (a) Emile Durkheim

Emile Durkheim, a sociologist developed the theory of suicide relating with the theory of social constraint that emphasized on the relationship between suicide and lack of social attachment. He stated that suicide is not exhibited by the individual itself, but by something powerful than them and that power is social and not psychological.

2. (b) Positive

The mechanisms that have a social control are called as sanctions. It could either be positive or negative. In a positive sanction an individual is provided with rewards, whereas in a negative sanction an individual is provided with punishments. For example, receiving a promotion is an example of positive sanction because it is a reward.

3. (a) Structural functionalism

In sociology, structural functionalism is a theory that emphasizes on the relationship between different social institutions like the government, law, schools, hospitals and organizations by explaining the way it functions. Functionalists believe that deviance plays an important role in challenging unjust laws and policies by bringing people's attention towards it.

4. (b) Conflict

Conflict theories states that crime and deviance are caused by social and economic factors. It focuses on the inequality in the society such as in gender, race, religion, distribution of wealth and the criminal behaviors that occur in the society. The civil rights movements is an example of conflict because it as based on the inequality in rights of the African Americans.

5. (a) Structural functionalism

When someone engages in a criminal behavior, the judicial system punishes them and it also reminds others that, if they engage in such criminal behaviors they would also be punished. Therefore deviance is functional because it reminds people about what is just and what would happen it they engage in injustice behaviors.

6. (b) Conflict

One of the focus of the conflict theory is the inequality in the society based on socioeconomic factors because the society was divided in to bourgeois and proletariat. More power and wealth were taken by the bourgeois, whereas the proletariats remained the workers who were dependent on the bourgeois. This led to the widening of the wealth gap.

7. (b) Social disorganization theory

This theory states that the society that has the weak social ties and lacked social control had more criminal behaviors. People who grew up in a society that had more criminal behaviors like drug abuse, violence, delinquency or theft were more deviant than those who grew up in a more positive environment.

8. (a) Correlation

Correlation refers to the relationship between two variables. The correlation is positive when increase or decrease in one variable increase or decreases the other variable respectively. When increase in one variable decreases the other or the vice versa, then it is negative correlation.