Biological positivists have tended to focus on what type of crime ?

A. Violent
B. Juvenile
C. Drug-related
D. White collar

The sociologist responsible for the modern-day adaptation of strain theory is______________?

A. Weber
B. Cohen
C. Marx
D. Merton

According to Strain theory, retreatants are likely to engage in what type of deviant activity ?

A. Sexual assault
B. Terrorism
C. Counterfeiting
D. Drug abuse

Sutherland’s Differential Association theory emphasizes that crime and deviance are basically______________?

A. Due to poor parenting
B. Learned
C. Psychotic
D. Biological

According to Durkheim the division of labor in industrial societies brings about______________?

A. Organic solidarity
B. A loss of social solidarity
C. Mechanical solidarity
D. Communal solidarity

Which of the following is not part of karl Marx,s theory of capitalism ?

A. Capitalist production exploits the working class
B. Class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies
C. Industrial workers are the revolutionary class
D. Class struggle only occurs under capitalism

What does the functionalist perspective see as crucial for the maintenance of social order ?

A. Strong class-based identities
B. Multiculturalism
C. Moral consensus
D. A strong state

The theory of relative deprivation is an example of what ______________?

A. Macro sociological theory
B. Feminist sociological theory
C. Micro sociological theory
D. Middle-range sociological theory

Theoretical approaches can only be said to be valid if______________?

A. The theorist has researched the literature thoroughly
B. They have been tested out by means of factual research
C. They are written in such a way as to be impossible to disprove
D. They are shared by a large enough number of theorists

Which of these statements best represents C. Wright-Mills,s idea of the sociological imagination ?

A. Understanding the differences between the classical theorists
B. Bringing together private troubles and public issues
C. Seeing the social world as one made up of social facts
D. Avoiding explanations based on individual psychology