Soc213(003) Social Deviance Bogart Quiz04B: Li: SociDisorg and Ch. 2 (cont) 01/24/03

Faris & Dunham; Mills

31b. Following the approach of the Chicago, School Faris & Dunham (1965) expected to find the

mentally ill associated with _____. A. neighborhood homogeneity; B. police visibility; C. single

parent families, D. zones of the city; E. high use of television.

32b. Faris & Dunham (1965) reported that delinquency social disorganization in black areas of

the city correlated with _____ corresponding to ______. A. distance from the inner city, higher

rates of poverty; B. foreign origins, low literacy; C. nearness to the center of the city, recency of

arrival; D. tenement building, size families; E. remoteness from trolley lines, rates of truancy.

33b. Following the approach of the Chicago School, Faris & Dunham (1965) expected to find

more mental illness and more serious mental illness in A. African Americans ("blacks"), B..

foreign born immigrants, C. illiterate "whites", D. the inner city, E. Zone VI.

34b. Mills (1942) critiqued ____ by analyzing ____. A. Durkheim's anomie theory, American

newspapers; B. Merton's anomie theory, American newspapers; C. the early Chicago School,

their textbooks; D. pop sociology circa 1940, best sellers; E. social learning theory; a sample of

spouse abusers.

35b. Mills (1942) complained that Cooley was a _____. A. liberal "do gooder", B. radical

Marxist, C. naïve positivist, D. structural functionalist, E. reactionary.

Ch. 2: Positivist Theories

36b. Merton (1938) theorized that society creates deviance by _____ but people vary in their

_____. A. institutional dysfunction, institutional involvement; B. goals-means gaps, response to

the strain; C. level of stress, resources for coping; D. "surrogate parenting", identification with the

state as parent, E. status frustration, status aspirations. (pp. 18-19)

37b. According to Cohen (1955) lower class boys share basic status needs with middle class boys

but differ in _____. A. where they can satisfy them. B. how soon they expect them to be met; C.

their ability to meet them symbolically, D. their rate of sexual maturation, E. the availability of

male role models and mentors at home. (pp. 20-21)

38b. According to Thio, Glaser's (1956) learning theory can explain why lawyers do not become

criminals (despite extensive association with them) by the key factor of A. differential role

models, B. excess of non-criminal contacts, C. techniques of neutralization, D. limited

illegitimate opportunities, E. differential reinforcement. (p. 24)

39b. In claiming that deviance is a function of what (a) has been rewarding and (b) defined as

desirable, Akers (1998) incorporates _____ and _____ respectively. A. Durkheim, Merton; B.

reinforement theory, Sutherland; C. Sutherland, Glaser; D. Hirschi, Brainthwaite; E. Cooley,

Mills. (p. 26)

40b. Evaluating the research on social control theory, Thio reports that studies generally show

juvenile generally have weak social bonds but ____. A. drunk drivers do not; B. middle class

delinquents do not; C. female delinquents do not; D. the research can be interpreted as deviance

creates weak bonds; E. this is only for certain dimensions of the social bond.