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Read each question carefully and then select the best answer.

1
The challenge to effective social control is that people often receive competing messages about how to behave.
A)True
B)False
2
Stanley Milgram used the term obedience to mean going along with peers who have no special right to direct our behavior.
A)True
B)False
3
Informal social control is carried out by authorized agents, such as managers of movie theaters.
A)True
B)False
4
Law may be defined as government social control.
A)True
B)False
5
Sociologists see the creation of laws as a social process.
A)True
B)False
6
For sociologists, the term deviance does not mean perversion or depravity.
A)True
B)False
7
From a sociological perspective, deviance is objective or set in stone.
A)True
B)False
8
Sociologist Robert Merton introduced the term anomie into the sociological literature to describe a loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
A)True
B)False
9
Edwin Sutherland used the term differential association to describe the process through which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules.
A)True
B)False
10
Another name for labeling theory is cultural transmission theory.
A)True
B)False
11
Income-tax evasion, stock manipulation, consumer fraud, and bribery are all examples of organized crime.
A)True
B)False
12
In general, victimization surveys question police officers to determine how many people have been victims of crime.
A)True
B)False
13
People are often stigmatized for deviant behavior that they may no longer practice.
A)True
B)False







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