Question

"Those with the power to assign deviant labels themselves produce deviance." This

Answer 1

Answer:

B) symbolic interaction theory

Explanation:

A. is not the right answer. Feminism is the movement and theory that studies political, economical, and social questions of sex and gender, and how do culture and society shape inequalities. Nothing in the said sentence refers to the sex or gender inequality of deviance.

B. is the correct answer. Symbolic interaction theory believes the world is subjective to everyone and created through our views and interactions with others that help us see their views. The sentence above states that those who see something as deviant and can put labels on deviance in the system are the ones imposing that idea on others. Therefore their subjective views of the world and deviance are affecting others as they have enough power to affect more people. In that symbolic was, they are actually the ones producing the deviance. If the idea of what deviance is does not exist and if we are not being told what it is, nothing would be seen as deviant in society.

C. is not the correct answer. Functionalism is the theory that believes everything in society has its purpose and is vital for the survival of it. Nothing in the sentence talks about the function of the deviance.

D. Is not the correct answer. Conflict theory studies into the resources and materialism of the society, seeing institutions as those responsible to the class struggle, while critically urging for the reform. Nothing in the sentence talks about material or resource problems creating deviance.