Chapter 3- Constructionist Theories

Question 1

Looking into people’s subjective interpretation of their own experiences is key to understanding their deviant behavior

Answer 1

Phenomenological theory

Question 2

Law enforcement favors the rich and powerful over the poor and weak

Answer 2

Legal reality

Question 3

The dominant class produces crime by making laws, enforcing laws oppressing subordinate classes and spreading crime ideology

Answer 3

Social reality

Question 4

Deviance and crime stem from the exploitative nature of capitalism, we make our own criminals

Answer 4

Marxist

Question 5

Conventional theorized of deviance are largely inapplicable to women and the status of women as victims and of meets reflects the continuing subordination of women in patriarchal society

Answer 5

Feminist

Question 6

Because of strong deviant motivation grater deviant opportunity and weaker social control the powerful are more likely to engage in profitable deviancy than are the powerless to engage in unprofitable deviancy

Answer 6

Power

Question 7

Privileged language of the powerful dominates th marginalized language and thus the lives of the weak as deviants

Answer 7

Postmodernist

Question 8

Rl actively powerful persons are more likely to label the less powerful as deviant than vice versa, and being labeled deviant by society leads people to see themselves as deviant and live up to this self image by engaging in more deviance

Answer 8

Labeling theory