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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY CH 6 EXAM
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Question 1: Serial Murder
Answer:
The killing of several victims in three or more separate events
Question 2: Social Control
Answer:
A group's formal and informal means of enforcing norms
Question 3: Capital Punishment
Answer:
Another term for the death penalty
Question 4: Negative Sanction
Answer:
An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm, ranging from a mild informal reaction to a formal one
Question 5: Techniques of Neutralization
Answer:
Ways of thinking or rationalizing that help people deflect society's rules
Question 6: Positive Sanction
Answer:
Reward or positive reaction for following norms ranging from a smile to a prize
Question 7: Genetic Predisposition
Answer:
Inborn tendencies to commit deviant acts
Question 8: Strain Theory
Answer:
Robert Merton's theory based on cultural goals and the institutionalized means to achieve them
Question 9: Recidivism Rate
Answer:
The percentage of released convicts who are rearrested
Question 10: Degradation Ceremony
Answer:
A term to describe an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual's self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place
Question 11: Deviance
Answer:
The violation of norms (or rules or expectations)
Question 12: Personality Disorder
Answer:
The view that a personality disturbance of some sort causes an individual to violate social norms
Question 13: Social order
Answer:
A group's usual and customary social arrangements on which its members depend and which they bas their lives
Question 14: White Collar Crime
Answer:
Crimes committed by people of respectable and high social status in the course of their occupations
Question 15: Hate Crime
Answer:
Crimes motivated by someone's race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or national origin
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