If you believe that deviant behavior has characteristics that distinguish it from conforming behavior,you believe deviance is

A) a label.
B) a biased concept.
C) psychologically determined.
D) intrinsically real.

Until the 1970s,sociologists stressed which of the following as a necessary precondition for nonroutine collective action to take place?

A) a group of people must be economically deprived or socially rootless
B) the norms of a group must be disrupted
C) group members must lose their capacity to act rationally by getting caught up in the supposed madness of crowds
D) all of these choices
E) none of these choices

Which of the following is a stage in an initiation rite?

A) separation from one's new status and identity
B) degradation, disorientation, and stress
C) preservation of an existing identity
D) close supervision by specialized staff

According to the labeling theory,deviance is

A) an objective reality.
B) a property inherent in the actor.
C) a label created by the person who commits a deviant act.
D) a label imposed by others upon a given behavior.

Andi,a twenty-three-year old white woman,hesitated to introduce her African American boyfriend to her parents,who are both white.All of her friends from college have already met her boyfriend.According to the textbook,what might this decision say about attitudes toward interracial dating?

A) African Americans are generally more accepting of interracial dating than whites are.
B) Younger people tend to be more accepting of interracial dating than older people are.
C) Women tend to be more accepting of interracial dating than men are.
D) People are less accepting of interracial dating now than they were in the 1990s.

Which of the following refers to people who are romantically and erotically attracted to members of the same sex?

A) heterosexuals
B) homosexuals
C) bisexuals
D) pansexuals

Which category of grandparents assume responsibility for the physical care of their grandchildren,usually their daughter's,until the parent(s) come home from work?

A) day-care grandparents
B) living-with grandparents
C) custodial grandparents
D) parent grandparents

Becoming defensive or challenging the client's resistance to the existence of a problem is usually a successful method during the assessment phase.

_____ focuses on the processes through which people learn social identities through their connections with others in a family.

A) Functionalism
B) Conflict theory
C) Symbolic interaction theory
D) Feminist theory

Which of the following terms refers to a carefully controlled artificial situation that allows researchers to isolate hypothesized causes and measure their effects precisely?

A) a survey
B) an observation
C) an experiment
D) a case study