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saraeharris

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According to the social-conflict approach, what a society labels as deviant is based primarily on ________
 
  a. how often the act occurs.
  b. the moral foundation of the culture.
  c. how harmful the act is to the public as a whole.
  d. differences in power between various categories of people.

Question 2

The basic idea behind labeling theory is that ________
 
  a. deviance is actually useful in a number of ways.
  b. deviance arises not so much from what people do as how others respond to what they do.
  c. power has much to do with how a society defines deviance.
  d. deviance is actually a myth.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: d

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b





 

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