Deck 5: Early Sociological Thinking About Crime

Question 1

Cohen´s study of delinquent boys pioneered the idea that boys become delinquent because of what he termed ´status frustration´.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In his pioneering study of deviance, Émile Durkheim made the curious claim that there is nothing abnormal about deviance - what does this mean?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Merton identified five forms of adaption to anomie - three are listed here: which are they?

A)Ritualism
B)Retreatism
C)Rebellion
D)Reaction
E)Recognition

Answer 3

A, B, C

Question 4

Thrasher identified several types of gang in his Chicago studies: which four of these are those he identified?

A)the diffuse gang
B)the solidifed gang
C)the conventionalized gang
D)the amorphic gang
E)the criminal gang

Question 5

Edwin Sutherland wrote three important books: which of these are they?

A)Homeless Men
B)Street Corner Society
C)Doing Nothing
D)The Professional Thief
E)White Collar Crime

Question 6

City centres, Burgess observed, are constructed of major rings: which three are they?

A)Business districts
B)Tourist area
C)Factories - industrial units
D)Residential
E)Green belt

Question 7

Sutherland argued crime was a normal learning process; we learn crime in much the same way as we learn everything else. How many principles did he use to underpin his theory?

A)3
B)5
C)7
D)9
E)11

Question 8

Chicago sociologists found that there were distinctive areas where crime rates were much higher - these were known as the zone of what?

A)Despair
B)Escape
C)Transition
D)Corruption
E)Absence

Question 9

Cloward and Ohlin suggest that there were two major kinds of youthful cultures.

Question 10

What does functionalsim teach us about crime in society?