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.Management Sciences
Category: Social Control
A great deal of leadership and authority rests upon the skillful manipulation of the group as a___________?
A. Source of power
B. Source of help
C. control device
D. None of these
Fred is a intelligent student Last year he was on the honor roll This year he began hanging out with friends who spend more time playing video games than studying they routinely earn C, s and D, s Over time Fred slowly stops doing his homework and turning in work for extra credit. He drops out of his honors classes and his grades drop out from mostly A, s to C, s Which theory of deviance best explains what has happened here ?
A. structural strain theory
B. social control theory
C. differential association theory
D. Each of these theories explains the situation equally well
Disciplinary power was exercised in the 19th century factories by_______________?
A. the use of corporal punishment by employers
B. excluding women from participating in waged labor
C. punctuality uninterrupted work and the threat of dismissal
D. making routine tasks less monotonous
Social mobility may be experienced by______________?
A. Only by individuals
B. Only by groups
C. By individual or by entire group
D. None of these
New-style terrorism differs from the old-style in that______________?
A. it is less predictable than previous manifestations
B. it has ambitions that are global in scope
C. it is rooted in religious ideologies
D. it concerns local territorial disputes
A network of roles according to which each person accepts certain duties towards others makes ?
A. Social background
B. Social Order
C. Social stratification
D. None of these
Conflict theorists_____________?
A. emphasize that the values of society serve all members of society
B. see the capitalist ruling class as protecting the masses
C. argue that criminal acts are acts which the ruling class brands as criminal
D. None of the above reflects the thinking of conflict theorists
Lombroso claimed that_____________?
A. criminals were socialized underworld of crime
B. no act is intrinsically deviant
C. biological failings drove some people into crime
D. women were less likely to be arrested than men
Downward mobility factors are_________________?
A. Opposite to those of upward mobility
B. Same
C. different from those
D. None of these
What is the most common reason people give for not reporting a crime ?
A. fear of reprisal
B. dislike of the police
C. too trivial for the police
D. best dealt with privately
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