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Inderbitzin, Bates & Gainey, Deviance and Social Control 2nd Edition
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Chapter 2
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is not deviance?
a) Voluntarily childless
b) Talking to classmate while professor lectures
c) Cutting arm with razor, intentionally
d) Sneezing in class
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. An example of an aesthetic norm includes:
a) purple hair.
b) a few tattoos.
c) a human tail.
d) a cleft (largely disfigured) lip.
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Difficult
3. Which is not a new form of deviance due to new technologies?
a) Legal downloading of music, movies, and readings
b) Cyberbulling
c) Online misbehavior of college students
d) “Sexting”
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Deviance is reflective of ______ and _______.
a) laws, enforcement
b) norms, attitudes
c) parents, family
d) flaws, mistakes
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy
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5. Rosa Parks is known for her act of positive deviance because:
a) she was expected to sit in the back of the bus and chose to sit in the back.
b) she was expected to sit in the back of the bus and refused to sit in the back.
c) she was not allowed on the bus and got on anyway.
d) she was expected to sit at the front of the bus and chose to sit in the back.
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Which of the following is not an example of sexually unconventional behaviors?
a) Prostitution and escort services
b) Adult affairs
c) College students having sex
d) Online sex predators
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain:
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Difficult
7. _________ are deviant because they afflict bodily harm with intention while many people
avoid bodily harm.
a) Anorexics and bulimics
b) Homosexual couples
c) Self-injurers
d) Voluntarily childless
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Difficult
8. _______ __________ is defined as “criminal and deviant acts by the largest corporations and
the most powerful political organizations.”
a) Ethnocentric deviance
b) Elite deviance
c) Criminogenic deviance
d) Corporate criminality
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. An example of pharmaceutical deviance includes:
a) a doctor provided a prescription to a patient lives in another county.
b) filling a prescription at RiteAid instead of your usual Walgreen’s pharmacy.
c) filling a pain killer prescription from your doctor.
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d) taking Adderall before an exam your friend has a prescription for, but you do not.
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. The children of _________________ were forced to a new set of norms, things they
considered deviant from their own culture, including strangers, foods, clothing, and etiquette for
two months while investigations took place.
a) The Corn
b) Columbine
c) Zion Ranch
d) Kimmie Schmidt
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Relationships and Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy
TRUE/FALSE:
1. Deviant behavior is always criminal.
Ans: FALSE
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. A woman who is voluntarily childless is viewed as deviant across all cultures.
Ans: FALSE
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Difficult
3. Conventional sexual orientations in the United States during the 1950s included
heterosexuality, in which homosexuality is the deviant opposition to the conventional during that
time.
Ans: TRUE
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Homophobia refers to the fear of heterosexuality.
Ans: FALSE
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Conceptions of Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy
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