Friday, May 11, 2012

SOCIOLOGY REVISION QUESTIONS

Functionalist Theory of Crime
Q1) Which sociologist talked about the crime and the function of punishment?
Q2) What was the term Kingsley Davis used to describe more minor crime being used as a way to prevent more serious crimes in society?
Q3) Which other sociologist elaborated on Kingsley Davis’s concept of Safety Valve and what did they discuss?
Q4) Which sociologist stated crime acts as a warning function that there is some defect in society?

Strain Theory of Crime
Q1) Who came up with the Strain Theory?
Q2) What does the strain theory say about normlessness?

Marxist Theory of Crime
Q1) What does the term criminogenic capitalism mean?
Q2) How did Chambliss explain the state and the law making contributing to the ideology of crime?
Q3) What was the title of Reiman’s Book?


Neo Marxist Theory of Crime
Q1) Which theorist/group of theorist’s expressed the voluntaristic approach to crime and deviance?
Q2) What other theories does critical criminology also combine itself with?
Q3) What does Radical Criminology reject as a base cause to crime?


Labelling Theory of Crime
Q1) Which sociologist did studies on the social construction of labels and primary deviance?
Q2) Which sociologist did studies on secondary deviance in a study of the Hippy culture and drugs?
Q3) How did Stan Cohen illustrate the concept of deviance amplification in his studies of Mods and Rockers at a concert?



Subcultural Theory of Crime
Q1) Which theory was the subcultural theory adapted from?
Q2) Who stated that Merton’s Strain Theory ignores crimes committed by groups?
Q3) Criminal Subcultures, Conflict Subcultures and Retreatist Subcultures related to crime and deviance was classified by which 2 sociologists?
Q4) What was Gordon’s argument about subcultural crime and capitalism?


Crime Prevention and Punishment
Q1)What did Durkheim argue about crime prevention?
Q2) Marxists argue that the function of punishment is for?
Q3) There are two kinds of power Foucault describes as being used to prevent crime in society, there are?
Q4)Who argued about situational crime prevention using the physical reformation of a Bus Terminal to remove the opportunity of crime?
Q5) Wilson and Kelling used a 3 word term to refer to the prevention of crime being more prone to an area if the environment wasn’t kept clean and stable, what was it?
Q6) The SCCP was a school enrichment program to prevent crime. What was it and how did it benefit those that had undergone it and society itself?
Q7) What was the name of the positivist that described positivist Victimology which meant victims contributed to their crimes?
Q8) Which critical criminologists argued that the state have the ability to label and give the status to a victim?


ETHNICITY AND CRIME
Q1)Black People Make Up 2.8 of the population in UK, what is the percentage they make up in the prison population?
Q2) Asians make up 6% of the prison population. What’s the percentage according to the general population?
Q3)Which organisation states that white people are under-represented in all aspects of the criminal justice system in society?
Q4) Black People are 7x more likely to be stopped and searched by the Police, is this true?
Q5) The British Crime Survey on victims found that most crime is?
Q6) Graham and Bowlings 2500 Self Report Survey revealed black and white crime rates as being insanely different or similar?
Q7) The McPherson Report was a study of?
Q8) What was the name of the victim who was murdered in the McPherson Report?
Q9) Gilroy states that black criminality is a…?
Q10) Hall et all describe the myth of the black mugger as an illusion, this was to?
Globalisation and Crime
Q1) Manual Castells argues that there is now a Global Criminal Economy. What 2 sides does it have?
Q2) Which Sociologist did studies on Globalised Capitalism?
Q3) According to Whyte’s concept of Transgressive Criminology, there are 2 views about the justification of harms to the environment. What are they?
Q4) Carabine et al distinguishes between 2 types of Green Crime, they are?
Q5) We should define crime as the breaking of human rights rather than the breaking of legal rules. Which theorist made this statement?
Q6) Stan Cohen argues that states use a variety of factors to justify human right violations. What was the name of their theory called?
Q7) Authorisation, Routinisation and Dehumanisation are 3 factors stated by which 2 Sociologists who argue it allows states to commit crime?


Environmental Theory of Crime
Q1)Shaw and McKay used what model to identify crime occurances in specific sectors of society?
Q2) What was the name of the theorist that criticized Shaw and McKay’s studies for being too deterministic and not fitting in with British society?
Q3) Hobbs and Lister argued that growth of Pubs and Clubs gathered a large amount of young people in search for pleasure during the weekend. What was the fraction of all violent incidents occurring between 9pm to 3am on weekends?
Q4) Baldwin and Bottoms did studies in Sheffield on the Stonewall and Gardenia Estates. One of them had tipped with 300% higher rates of offenders and 350% higher level of crime. Which one was it?
Q5) Which 2 Sociologists argue than an area is more prone to crime when the environment isn’t kept stable, clean and free from litter?


Suicide and Crime
Q1) Who created the ideology that statistics can be viewed as social facts, especially when researching studies such as suicide?
Q2) Can you name 2 interpretivist sociologists that criticize statistics as social facts?
Q3) Realists like Taylor tend to look for and identify real patterns in suicide. What were the 4 types of suicide Taylor distinguished between?


Gender and Crime
Q1) By the age of 30, what is the percentage of criminal convictions for males in the UK?
Q2) By the age of 30, what is the percentage of criminal convictions for females in the UK?
Q3) Which gender is 4/5 times a convicted offender?
Q4) The Chilverly Thesis was a concept by which sociologist?
Q5) Farrington and Buckle did studies on Shoplifting being committed more than males even though it is deemed as a more feminine crime. What was their findings?
Q6) The functionalist sex role approach was argued by which sociologist?
Q7) Which sociologist criticizes the failure to biologically organise the family as the course of crime rates for males?
Q8) Carlen argues that which gender is more rational when it comes to crime and deviance?
Q9) What were Frieda Alder’s findings to support the Liberation Thesis?
Q10) Which Sociologist believed Patriarchal Control keeps women from preventing crime?
Q11) Sometimes crime can be viewed as an accomplishment according to which theorist?
Q12) Body Capital, Hyper Realities and Bouncer’s was a study taken by which sociologist?


Biology of Crime
Q1) What was the name of the Italian Doctor that discovered biological features about the criminal man and woman?
Q2) The generations of Stephen Mobley’s family revealed they were violent, aggressive and criminal. What was the name of the sociologist who did a case study on Stephen Mobley?
Q3) Who did studies on Psychopaths?
Q4) Which theorist argued that personalities and anti-social behaviour are correlated?


Objectivity and Value Freedom in Sociology
Q1) What did Durkheim say about value freedom?
Q2) Which theorist argues that there is nothing about a fact that compels us to accept a value?
Q3) Sociology is made up of a meaningless infinity of facts that make it impossible to study in totality, this is related to a statement by whom?
Q4) What was the name of the sociologist who argued that sociologist attach their values to committed theories effecting how they conduct their studies?
Q5) Becker argues that sociologists take?


Social Policy and Sociology
Q1) Which functionalist influenced the idea that young people’s relationships with their mothers was a prime importance and policies should support this?
Q2) The Social Democratic Perspective to Social Policy was emphasized by which Sociologist?
Q3) Marxist believe social policies benefit the rich and exploit the?
Q4) There are 3 factors Marxists elaborate on social policies preventing equality which are?
Q5) The Neo Conventional Family is assumed to be nuclear is by which theory?
Q6) What is the name of the Right Wing theorist who believes state policies are too lenient and should focus on making people self reliant?


Sociology as a Science
Q1) Who were the early sociologists who believed their methods took a more scientific approach?
Q2) Can you name the positivist who outlined statistics can be used as social facts?
Q3) What was the philosophical term Karl Popper used to describe science as following the principle of facts being able to be disproved.
Q4) Name the interpretivist that argued we need to attach meanings behind things as individuals have free will to determine their own behaviour?
Q5) Scientific Paradigms was a concept studied by whom?
Q7) Which 2 Realist Sociologists argued that society is an open system. That when open systems are studied, variables are impossible to control?

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