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6. Durkheim refers to anomie as

  • normlessness
  • togetherness

7. Cohen identifies a function of deviance a...... that an institution isn't functioning properly

  • warning
  • loving
  • alternative

8. for Durkheim all change starts with

  • deviance
  • conformity
  • normlessness

9. An example of .... warning, high rates of truancy= probelms with education system

  • Merton
  • POlsky
  • Cohen
  • Davis

10. criticism of Durkheim...

  • didn't create crime in advance, just because it exists doesn't mean it was made
  • crime in advance, just because it exists does mean it was made
  • crime in the future, just because it exists doesn't mean it was made

11. Davis argues that prostitution acts as a ....... ...... for the release of sexual frustration without threatening the nuclear family

  • Safty valve
  • valve
  • correction
  • high rates of truancy

12. Punishment reaffirms values and stops

  • wrong doing
  • right doing

13. Erikson looked at the...aspects of crime and deviance

  • negative
  • inevitability - postive
  • pole

14. who believed that C + D was neccessary to generate change, clarify acceptable behaviour and creates social integration (bonding criminals)

  • Becker
  • Cohen
  • Durkheim
  • Merton

15. Did Durkheim believe that a certain amount of crime and deviance may be functional for society?

  • Yes
  • No

16. Too much crime accordong to Durkheim

  • tears bonds of society apart
  • represses and controls members

17. two reasons why people deviate:

  • not everyone effectively socialised, diversity of lifestyles -different groups develop their own subcultures
  • everyone is effectively socialised, diversity of lifestyles -different groups develop their own subcultures

18. What supports Erikson

  • use of carnivals, demonstrations that allow deviance to occur
  • use of carnivals, demonstrations that do not allow deviance to occur

19. Durkheim believes what is weakened by diversity resulting in crime and deviance

  • illusion
  • collective conscious
  • deviance amplification
  • wrongdoing

20. women staying in to avoid attack

  • not always solidarity
  • always solidarity