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Each of the following statements is false. Pick XX of these statements and refute them. (You need to do more than simply say the statement is false. Explain why it is false. Provide examples if these will clarify your answer.)
a. Sociologists study deviance in order to determine what acts are moral and what acts are immoral.
b. According to Durkheim, married people and Catholics are more likely to commit suicide.
c. Merton's typology of responses to anomie could just as well be called a typology of deviant behavior.
d. There are certain acts (e.g., killing another person) that are so bad that they are prohibited in every society.
e. According to strain theory, everyone has about the same chance to get ahead in society, it's just that some people prefer to use illegal means.
f. Durkheim suggested that crime and deviance are fundamentally bad for society and every effort should be made to get rid of them. Once we finally rid ourselves of deviance, society will be a better place in which to live.
g. According to Goffman, anyone who commits a deviant act will be stigmatized.

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