SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Instructor: Jeremy Don Kerr E-mail address: jkerr0@uky.edu
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SOC 436 Response Sheet #3
Read: Investigating Deviance Part I: pp 1-23
Instructions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Type your answers
using a 12-point Times New Roman Font, single-spaced, with 1" top, bottom, and side margins. Put your name on every sheet in the upper right hand corner in the format "Last name, First name." Put page numbers in the
upper right hand corner beginning with your second page. Put SOC 436 and the assignment number in the upper left hand corner of the first sheet. Staple multiple pages together in the upper left hand corner. This assignment is worth
15 points. 1. Why is deviance "essential to any properly functioning society" according to Jacobs? 2. How does deviance facilitate social change according to Jacobs?
3. Why is the "absolutist perspective" of deviance problematic? 4. Why is saying that deviance is "rare and infrequent behavior" not a good definition of deviance? 5. What does the normative model of
deviance tell us about deviance? That is, can the same behavior be both deviant and conformist? What counts most in terms of determining whether or not a behavior is deviant?
6. When sociologists say that deviance elicits "sanctions," what are they referring to? 7. What two functions do sanctions serve in the case of serious rule-breaking?
8. Why is "harm" not a necessary or sufficient criterion for deviance? 9. In what two ways does deviance lead to people being "outsiders" according to Becker?
10. Why is the statistical definition or view of deviance too simple? 11. Why is the notion that deviance is "pathological" or indicative of a "disease" problematic according to Becker?
12. What does the medical metaphor prevent us for seeing according to Becker? 13. Why can't students of deviance assume that people who have been labeled deviant actually are deviant?
14. "Fear mongering," according to Glassner, is driven by what motive? 15. Why are the consequences of fear mongering so troubling according to Glassner?
16. "Panic-driven public spending" is akin to what according to Glassner? 17. What percentage of respondents in nationally conducted surveys said that drug abuse had never caused problems in their family?
18. Even though the nation's murder rate declined by 20% from 1990 to 1998, the number of murder stories on network newscasts increased by what amount? 19. What are the two main reasons certain dangers get selected for
special emphasis according to Mary Douglas? 20. What is the "short answer" to why Americans harbor so many misbegotten fears according to Glassner? 21. Why does Erikson suggest that human groups are often
organized in such a way as to promote the "resource" known as deviant behavior? 22. Why is passage out of the role of "deviant" so difficult according to Erikson? 23. The rate of deviation found in
a community is at least in part a function of what according to Erikson? 24. How do agencies of control often seem to define their job according to Erikson? 25. What does Emile Durkheim say about crime in
The Rules of Sociological Method? 26. A community's capacity for handling deviance can be roughly estimated using what information, according to Moynihan? 27. What did a 1990 Department of Justice
report reveal about what percentage of crimes are reported to the police?
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