SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR

Instructor: Jeremy Don Kerr   E-mail address: jkerr0@uky.edu

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SOC 436 Response Sheet #4

Read: Investigating Deviance, Part III: pp 107-128.

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 10 points.

1. Serious rule breakers are often members of what kind of population according to Jacobs?

2. How are those who study serious rule-breaking often perceived?

3. Collecting "thick descriptions" relies on what type of methods, according to Jacobs?

4. Why can't valid descriptive information about rule breakers typically be collected from official sources?

5. Why do UCR data represent a "truncated and highly distorted" version of reality according to Jerome Miller?

6. Being arrested is largely a function of what, according to Jacobs?

7. What is the media number of lifetime sex partners for women and men, respectively?

8. What is the major challenge of any social survey?

9. In terms of sex research, Laumann et. al. point out that most of it has been directed at what kind of individuals?

10. What two key factors must be considered when deciding how large a sample size for a given study should be?

11. What type of survey tends to get the highest response rate?

12. What concerns did callers to the NHSLS hotline voice about the research and interviewers?

13. What is the principle advantage of a telephone survey and what are two key disadvantages?

14. What are two reasons why slang and colloquial speech are likely to be problematic in surveys?

15. Why are qualitative methods so important for the study of deviant behavior according to Jacobs?

16. Why did Luther rob Bruce Jacobs and harass him for weeks?

17. What does Wolff contend is necessary for successful fieldwork?

18. Why is "snitching" not a good choice for a researcher according to Jacobs?

19. Why don't studies of incarcerated offenders provide the kind of information about street-level drug dealers that might be of the greatest interest to someone studying drug-dealing or some other form of crime?

20. What did the term "SCAT," yelled by street-level dealers mean?

21. Why did the police turn out to be absolutely essential to Jacob's research?

22. Can ethnographers who study criminals be sent to jail for protecting their sources of data and/or withholding information?

23. What does Jacobs mean when he states that "Researching active offenders requires on to balance conflicting agendas?

PLEASE NOTE: All answers should be in the form of complete sentences and should restate the question in the answer. So, for example, question #1 would be answered as follows:  "Serious rule breakers are often members of ___________   ____________ ___________, according to Jacobs." 

I know it seems like knit-picking, but it is important to get into the habit of answering questions in this format because (1) it makes it clear to the reader (me in this case) that you actually answered the question; (2) helps assure that you actually answer the question rather than providing incomplete or inaccurate information; (3) helps "reinforce" the information you've read more effectively (because there are no exams I believe this is important); and (4) makes it easy to review for an exam or other assignment because you won't need the question set to make sense of your answers if you've answered the question in this fashion (obviously the exam part doesn't apply in this class--but some assignments may ask you to recall information that you've previously been asked to provide on a response sheet).

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