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Mr. Wonderful · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

According to the delinquent subculture point of view, delinquents form nonutilitarian, malicious, and negativistic subcultures. Delinquents behave in this fashion __________.

a. as a way of associating with others who will teach them the techniques of skilled crime
b. in order to achieve enough power to control certain blocks in their neighborhood
c. in order to celebrate lower-class values
d. because through association with each other, they learn definitions favorable to law violation
e. because as lower-class youth they cannot meet the standards of the middle-class measuring rod applied by teachers and others

Question 2

Sexism is probably the MOST evident in __________.

a. the mass media's dramatic depiction of men's and women's roles
b. the concentration of women in lower-status, low-pay jobs
c. the lectures of the average college classroom
d. voter registration
e. the treatment of men and women by television news