Lesson 03B1.1.1
03B1.1.1 Definitions of crime, deviance, social order and social control Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 8
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The 20 questions
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What term describes behaviour that breaks the formal written laws of a society?
- Sanction
- Anomie
- Deviance
- Crime
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Which sociological term describes behaviour that transgresses informal norms and values?
- Statute
- Crime
- Legality
- Deviance
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Who famously argued that deviance is relative and varies across different historical time periods?
- Karl Marx
- Stanley Cohen
- Max Weber
- Emile Durkheim
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What concept refers to a stable state of society where rules and norms are respected?
- Social mobility
- Anomie
- Social order
- Social control
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Which mechanisms are used by society to enforce conformity and regulate behaviour?
- Socialisation
- Stratification
- Social order
- Social control
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Which type of social control is exercised by institutions like the police and courts?
- Formal control
- Moral control
- Informal control
- Internal control
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What type of social control is exercised through peer pressure, ridicule and ostracism?
- Institutional control
- Formal control
- Informal control
- Legal control
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Which term describes rewards used by society to encourage conformity to social norms?
- Negative sanctions
- Positive sanctions
- Formal penalties
- Injunctions
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What term describes punishments applied to individuals who break social norms or laws?
- Rewards
- Altruism
- Positive sanctions
- Negative sanctions
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If smoking cannabis is legal in one country but carries a prison sentence in another, what does this demonstrate?
- Cultural relativity
- Social order
- Universal law
- Absolute morality
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If society changes its laws to criminalise domestic abuse, what process is occurring?
- Biological determinism
- Economic stagnation
- Value consensus
- Social construction
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A teacher giving a detention to a disruptive pupil is an example of which type of control?
- Criminal control
- Absolute control
- Informal control
- Formal control
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A group of teenagers laughing and whispering about a peer wearing unfashionable clothes is exercising what?
- State regulation
- Formal control
- Legal sanction
- Informal control
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Receiving a promotion at work for hard work is an example of which mechanism?
- Positive sanction
- Negative sanction
- Formal penalty
- Informal deviance
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Getting a prison sentence for theft is an example of which type of negative sanction?
- Formal sanction
- Informal sanction
- Internal sanction
- Positive sanction
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Which sociological perspective argues that crime is functional and reinforces social boundaries?
- Marxism
- Functionalism
- Feminism
- Interactionism
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Which approach focuses on how powerful groups label certain acts and groups as deviant?
- Biological positivism
- New Right
- Labelling theory
- Functionalism
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What sociological concept refers to a shared agreement on core values within a society?
- Class conflict
- Value consensus
- Radicalisation
- Anomie
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What term describes the absence or breakdown of social norms leading to normlessness?
- Social order
- Altruism
- Consensus
- Anomie
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Why is murder considered a cross-cultural crime despite variations in legal definitions?
- Informal deviance
- Legal ambiguity
- Universal condemnation
- Relative morality
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