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 are 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 76-85. 1. According to the author, what is the principle source of power in a society?
2. What is the most dramatic and decisive factor in social stratification in the United States? 3. How are wealthy elites able to translate economic power into political power according to Mill's?
4. The goal of radical inquiry is to expand and integrate causal levels in order to do what? 5. Blau and Blau conclude that inequality is the root cause of what?
6. Why does inequality lead to increased crime according to Michalowski? 7. Describe how the socialization experiences in white-collar and blue-collar professions tend to promote crime among those in the lower classes
while inhibiting criminal involvement in the middle and upper income groups. 8. Why does capitalism generate crime in all classes according to Bonger?
9. Bobx claims that recessions can be linked to an increased number of what kind of police crimes? 10. How does Engels view the relationship between capitalism, competition, and crime? Selection II:98-105 11. Briefly explain how are reintegrative shaming disintegrative shaming differ. 12. According to Braithwaite, when is shame more deterring?
13. The best place to see reintegrative shaming at work is where? 14. What does Braithwaite's theory predict about cultures in which the "family model" is applied to crime control both within and beyond the family? 15. In what society is shame often born both by the individual and the collectivities to which he belongs–and how does that nation's crime rate compare with the U.S. crime rate?
16. According to Bayley, how do police-offender encounters tend to differ in the U.S. and Japan? Selection III: 439-448. 17. How/why does stigmatization represent a means of social control?
18. The deviant labeling of women is particularly indicative of the violation of what four key categories of gender norms? 19. Briefly explain the two concepts by Becker and Goffman that this article focuses on. 20. Identify and briefly explain the four types error underlying false accusations. 21. What three factors in particular are said to account for the fact that females athletes and women's sports are more
often targets of lesbian accusations? 22. Identify and briefly describe the three forms of concealment focused on in this article. 23. How does "capitulation" serve to reinforce false labels?
24. Why is the likelihood of resistance to the lesbian label by female athletes significantly reduced according to the authors?
Response Sheet #8
Read: pp 76-85; 98-105;439-448.
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