Statistical deviance - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Sociology 101 Straighterline Exam Questions and Complete Solutions __________ involves aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability, and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure. - Answer: Social statics Herbert Spencer viewed society as a system, having important similarities with - Answer: a biological organism __________ refers to processes of social life that pattern institutional development and have to do with social change. -...

CMN 140 Exam1, CMN 140 Exam 2, CMN 140 Final 194 Questions with Verified Answers "Hardware" vs "Software" of the brain - CORRECT ANSWER *Hardware:* -Biological organ of communication -Computation is processed in gray matter -> e.g. how info is processed in the brain -Info is transmitted via white matter *Software:* -The brain gives rise to the mind -Some programs are innate (e.g. capacity for language) -Some are learned (e.g. English language) *There is a deep physical connecti...

How does the institution of medicine, according to Foucault exercise power? a. Coercion b. Explaining individual problems (disease/illness) c. Providing a solution (cure/health) d. Both B & C e. All of the above - ANS d. Both B & C The use of parish mortality records in the 17th century is an excellent example of: a. An early Surveillance System b. An early Health Information System c. An early health care system d. Both A & B e. None of the above - ANS ...

deviance Correct Answer-Used to describe behaviours that are socially disapproved, and regarded by a group as immoral, illegal, or something that is subject to social sanctions usually it is something that is inconsistent with standards of conduct within a group what are the different approaches to deviance? Correct Answer-statistical approach, absolutist approach, legalistic approach, social harmfulness approach, reactive approach, group evaluation approach, normative definition approach, s...

Statistical approach? what's it lacking? Correct Answer-to see if a lot of people do it or minority of people do it. -if everyone does it wont violate any standard -lacking: evaluation of judgement of behavior, people are going to judge what is right and wrong Absolutist approach Correct Answer-standard of what is deviant and what is not functionalist Correct Answer-see's society like an organism, sometimes we get sick and our bodies do not work properly, deviance is a part of society ...

CRIM 249 EXAM 1 2024 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS What is crime, and how is it different from deviance? - correct answer Deviance (norms and statistical) vs Crime (written laws and punishments) What are the Normative Consensus and Normative Conflict views toward the origins of law? - correct answer Normative Consensus (public opinion and voting) vs Normative Conflict (group interests/values and power) What is criminology and what does it seek to explain? - correct answer Criminology is t...

CRIM 249 EXAM 1 2024 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS criminology - correct answer scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon deviance - correct answer the recognized violation of cultural norms statistical deviance - correct answer uncommon or rare characteristics normative deviance - correct answer an act is deviant if it violates the prevailing norms in a given setting institutional deviance - correct answer When society and its formal organizations are not meeting the needs of ...

Criminology Ans Scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon. Researched based, and heavy in theory. statistical deviance Ans uncommon behaviors that are not necessarily violating norms normative deviance Ans violates a social norm leading to negative response from society. Things that people deem offensive. Institutionalized deviants Ans people who will be viewed as deviants in most or all contexts, and it may or may not be intentional rare deviants Ans people who are sometim...

If λ=1 - ANS we do not transform non-deterministic - ANS Regression analysis is one of the simplest ways we have in statistics to investigate the relationship between two or more variables in a ___ way random - ANS The response variable is a ___ variable, because it varies with changes in the predicting variable, or with other changes in the environment fixed - ANS The predicting variable is a ___ variable. It is set fixed, before the response is measured. simple linear regr...

If λ=1 - we do not transform non-deterministic - Regression analysis is one of the simplest ways we have in statistics to investigate the relationship between two or more variables in a ___ way random - The response variable is a ___ variable, because it varies with changes in the predicting variable, or with other changes in the environment fixed - The predicting variable is a ___ variable. It is set fixed, before the response is measured. simple linear regression - regression anal...

abnormal psychology correct answers away from the norm (both statistical and social) 4 D's of abnormality correct answers 1. Deviance 2. Distress 3. Dysfunction 4. Danger dysfunction correct answers Behavior which represents inadequate and inappropriate responses to environmental demands. •This means that the person has lost the ability to engage in goal-directed behavior that promotes the well-being of the society and the individual. deviance correct answers behavior deviat...