Question

Monica, a new student at Valley High School, becomes friends with a group of teenagers who use marijuana and remain seated during the singing of the National Anthem. Although Monica had never used marijuana and used to sing the Anthem, she begins to engage in the same behavior as her new friends. This is an example of

A. differential association.B. conformity.C. labeling.D. both conformity and labeling.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) differential association.

This is an example of differential association.

Sociologist Edwin Southerland studied the way people were influenced by another group of people and came up with the term differential association, that is the way one individual receives the influence of other individuals due to the permanent interaction with them. They share and influence their way of thinking, values, ideas, behavior, and criteria.

Answer 2

C. labeling

Step-by-step explanation:

Labeling theories of crime are often referred to as social reaction theories, because they focus primarily on the consequences of responses or reactions to crime. These responses or reactions typically focus on three sets of actors:

1) informal social others, such as the friends, parents, or partners of persons committing crimes, and who disapprove of the offender’s behavior.

2) organizations or institutions such as the criminal justice system, whose function it is to “do something about” crime.

3) those who perceive a threat by some behavior and want to see legislation passed to outlaw it. All of these very diverse actions have one thing in common: they are all reactions to crime.

As such, they are said to be “labels” because they have the quality of attaching a name or a signature to someone or some behavior.