1) Interactionists argue that no _______ is deviant or not deviant. a) one b) action c) word d) individual e) community f) society 2) ________ (1963) argued that society creates deviance by creating rules. a) Becker b) Chambliss c) Cicourel d) Lemert e) Reiner  f) Briggs 3) Becker argues once people are ________ as outsiders, they are then treated as such by others and criminalised. a) labelled b) marginalised c) stamped d) accused e) prosecuted f) penalised 4) Youth subcultures and gangs develop because agencies of ________, such as the media, education and the legal systems, label them as criminal or deviant. a) socialisation b) social control c) social harm d) social solidarity e) social consciousness f) social deprivation 5) _________ is an interactionist approach to research which is based on an in-depth study of everyday life. a) field work b) experiments c) focus group d) non-participant observation e) participant observation f) ethnography 6) Because of the fluid and disorganised nature of youth cultures and youth groups in general, ________ research methods are more appropriate. a) social survey b) experiments c) field work d) quantitative e) qualitative f) participant observation 7) Criticisms of interactionists: Interactionism has tended to focus on lower status or outsider groups, often approaching them in a sympathetic way. This can lead to _______ accounts, for example, seeing skinheads as victims  a) biased b) knowledgeable c) correct d) emphatic e) real f) unreal 8) Criticisms of interactionism: It ignores _________ and issues of social power and inequality in society, so class, race and gender are not seen as an important dynamics in youth cultures. a) capitalism b) liberalism c) conservativism d) communism e) totalitarianism f) socialism 9) Briggs argues that holiday groups tend to behave in the way that is expected of them by the ________ expectations of commercial resorts who make money from their behaviours. a) social b) political c) cultural d) economic e) national f) interbational 10) Blackman (2010) claims that for many groups of young people, the use of drugs is ________. They are part of everday culture. a) wrong b) right c) normalised d) dangerous e) unacceptable f) criminal 11) This occurs when people begin to act according to their labels. a) Criminality b) Amplification c) Deviant career d) Master status e) Labelling f) Self-fulfilling prophecy 12) Is a way of being seen that over-rides other labels and is very significant. a) Criminality b) Amplification c) Deviant career d) Master status e) Labelling f) Self-fulfilling prophecy 13) Jock _______ (1971) study of marijuana smokers: Police responses to the hippie behaviour affected how the hippies reacted, so heavy handed policing made the hippies behave in an antagonistic way a) Young b) Becker c) Lemert d) Briggs e) Cohen f) Cicourel 14) _______ (1972) suggested that whole groups of people become demonised through the process of the creation of moral panics and folk devils. a) Young b) Becker c) Lemert d) Briggs e) Cohen f) Cicourel 15) Criticism of interactionism: studies in education have suggested that children can and do _______ negative labelling in various ways. a) resist b) conform c) abandon d) aquire e) react f) embrace 16) Criticism of interactionism: Liazos (1972) claimed that interactional studies focused on ’nuts, sluts and _______’, so mainstream cultures are overlooked and understudied. a) vicars b) teachers c) bikers d) mods e) perverts f) politicians 17) Most interactional studies of youth cultures are based on _________ and youth gangs rather than mainstream youth cultures. a) deviance b) music c) fashion d) politics e) culture f) art 18) Interactionists focus on reasons why people carry out actions, how others respond and what effect the response has on an _______. a) actor b) individual c) community d) apple e) actress f) orange 19) For Becker, deviants only become deviant when ________ have told them they are deviant.  a) society b) community c) individuals d) others e) politicians f) newspapers 20) Criticism of interactionism: it overlooks the ________ of the action and does not explain why people behave in a deviant way in the first place. a) motives b) illegality c) badness d) cost e) rewards f) origins

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