SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Instructor: Jeremy Don Kerr E-mail address: jkerr0@uky.edu
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SOC 436 Instructions: Answer the following questions using SHORT ANSWER
(complete sentences not required) or essay format as required. Number your answers. 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 20 points.
Selection I: pp 33-41.. 1. What does institutional anomie theory link crime to? 2. What is the central proposition of institutional anomie theory? 3. Does institutional anomie theory
suggest that either defective individuals or malfunctioning social systems are required for crime to occur? 4. What is the relationship between "efficiency norms" and the "moral regulation" of behavior?
5. In what three ways does economic dominance of social institutions manifest itself in capitalist societies? 6. What is the "principle claim" of institutional anomie theory?
7. Why are markets said to be "universalizing?" 8. Briefly summarize the empirical evidence in support of institutional anomie theory. 9. List at least 10 forms of "deviant" behavior that might be seen as
arising partly from efforts to achieve the "American Dream." Selection II: pp 57-61. 10. What does strain theory argue that adolescents are pressured into delinquency by?
11. Why have strain theories been criticized? 12. What three "disjunctions" are argued to influence the development of deviance? 13. List the noxious stimuli that have been associated with
crime/deviance in the criminological literature. Selection III: pp 292-301. 14. What percentage of rapes do scholars suggest are committed by persons with whom the victim is familiar?
15. Which men tend to have the highest status within a fraternity organization? 16. What factors within fraternities did Ehrhart and Sandler identify as conditions that precipitate gang rape?
17. What kind of men do fraternities usually seek according to the authors? 18. What did fraternity members in the rape case discussed in this reading do to hamper a police investigation into the alleged rape. 19. What is the major tool used within the fraternity to gain sexual mastery over women? 20. What are the odds of punishment so low for fraternity men (or others) who use alcohol to get women to have sex
with them? 21. Why did one university official declare that the idea of joining an all-male fraternity to meet women is "illogical?" 22. Why might members of the "Little Sisters" be particularly
susceptible to coerced sexual encounters with fraternity men? 23. What are the key "individual" and "collective" strategies that are used by fraternity men to gain sexual access to women?
24. What does Blancard say about the dynamics that usually lead to a gang rape? 25. What did the research by Martin and Hummer (the authors) lead them to conclude about fraternity norms and practices?
Essay Question: 26. In class Robert Merton's anomie theory was introduced and discussed. Write a brief essay (1-2 paragraphs) in which you apply Merton's theory to help explain the "cause" of fraternity rape. 27. Drawing from information provided in the selection on fraternity rape and from class notes on social disorganization, write a 2-3 paragraph essay in which you discuss the extent to which fraternity rape might be
seen as being a function of "social disorganization."
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