The most devastating criticism of Shaw and McKay’s social disorganization theory has concerned their:
(a) reliance on official records for measuring delinquency rates.
(b) lack of random samples.
(c) poor methodology.
(d) weak generalizations.
Criminology
Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess developed an ecological analysis of Chicago neighborhoods. Their type of analysis has since been called a/an________ approach.
(a) conflict
(b) social ecology
(c) functionalist
(d) social disorganization
Durkheim’s most notable application of his theory involving socialization and social ties was to:
(a) the work ethic.
(b) suicide.
(c) crime.
(d) divorce.
In virtually all his work, Durkheim emphasized two related mechanisms by which society was able to limit individual impulses and prevent chaos. These two mechanisms are:
(a) family and groups.
(b) socialization and social ties.
(c) groups and organizations. valuesToppers
(d) norms and
Social structure is more popularly referred to as:
(a) macro-sociology
(b) group conditions.
(c) social environment.
(d) socioeconomics
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Which of the following is NOT one of the components of the Freudian view of personality?
(a) looking-glass self
(b) id
(c) super ego
(d) ego
Which of the following is a problem associated with biological explanations of crime?
(a) Crime is simply too diverse; even if biological factors account for some violent aggression, they wouldn’t explain the vast majority of criminality.
(b) There are methodological problems, including small, unrepresentative samples of offenders and inadequate control groups.
(c) “group rate differences”
(d) a, b, and c are all correct
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When both members of a pair act alike, we have:
(a) divergence.
(b) discordance.
(c) concordance.
(d) convergence
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In his theory of somatology, William Sheldon identified three different body shapes that affect people’s personalities and the crimes they commit. Which of the following is NOT one of Sheldon’s body types?
(a) ectomorph
(b) endomorph
(c) mesomorph
(d) dentomorph