Question 1

According to Michel Foucault:

Accepted Answer

According to Foucault, self-regulation is an ultimate goal in the normalisation process. He argues that contemporary societies require individuals to self-regulate and discipline themselves in order to conform to social norms and expectations.

Answer: B
 Foucault also argues that religion played a significant role in shaping the nature of punishment. He suggests that religion introduced the concept of sin and the need for repentance, which altered the nature of punishment to be guided by professional knowledge rather than divine intervention.

Answer: C
 Foucault argues that contemporary agents of social control are highly visible, but also operate in subtle and pervasive ways. For example, he suggests that surveillance technologies, such as CCTV cameras and social media monitoring, enable constant monitoring and control of individuals.

Answer: D
 Foucault argues that power is not solely located in institutions or individuals, but rather is dispersed throughout society and embodied in everyday social practices. He suggests that power operates through subtle mechanisms that reproduce patterns of dominance and submission, and that unusual events can reveal these underlying power structures.

Question 2

Retrieve some crime statistics from a government website and choose one table or graph which shows crime over a period of time.Explain what the crime data reports and evaluate what the data indicates about a larger social process.

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Question 3

Which of the following is an accurate statement about youth gangs in Australia?

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Question 4

Which of the following statements would NOT emerge from a critical social control theory analysis of deviance and social control?

Accepted Answer

Critical social control theory would argue that law and criminal justice systems are often biased and disproportionately target marginalized individuals and groups. Thus, it would not advocate for the idea that law is an effective means of controlling deviance, which is reflected in statement D. Choices A, B, and C are consistent with critical social control theory and would be likely to emerge from this perspective.

Question 5

Which if the following is NOT part of how Queer theory analyses deviance?

Accepted Answer

Queer theory challenges the dichotomy of masculinity and femininity and affirms that gender is not binary. Therefore, affirming the masculinity-femininity binary would not be part of how Queer theory analyses deviance.

Quiz 9: Deviance or Difference

According to Michel Foucault:

Retrieve some crime statistics from a government website and choose one table or graph which shows crime over a period of time.Explain what the crime data reports and evaluate what the data indicates about a larger social process.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about youth gangs in Australia?

Which of the following statements would NOT emerge from a critical social control theory analysis of deviance and social control?

Which if the following is NOT part of how Queer theory analyses deviance?