Curated OER
Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control
In this deviance and social control worksheet, students respond to 14 fill in the blank questions and 15 matching questions pertaining to crime and how societies attempt to control it.
Sociology Central
Functionalist View of the Family
Any social science class studying functionalism and family may benefit from these eight pages of background information and activities. It does not include specific learning objectives, assessments, or rubrics, but it is a great source...
Curated OER
Social Reactions to Crime and Deviance
In this Reactions to Crime and Deviance worksheet, learners answer eight questions about deviance by defining, explaining, and identifying reasons for their answers.
Curated OER
Defining Crime and Deviance
In this crime and deviance worksheet, students answer questions and provide examples of various types of deviant and criminal behavior and compare it from culture to culture.
Curated OER
Explanation for Crime
In this Explanation for Crime worksheet, students fill in a chart about the seven elements of social theory of deviance. Point values are provided.
Teaching Tolerance
The Power of Words: Normative Sexuality
Students collect newspaper articles which discuss societies who enforce heterosexuality. They brainstorm how heterosexuality is enforced in their community. They answer questions to end the instructional activity.
Curated OER
Interactionist View of Deviance
In this defining deviance, students read extensively about different views on deviance and then complete exercises such as reading scenarios and identifying the theory/theorist that applies.
Curated OER
Sub-Cultural Theories Continued: Delinquency as the Consequence of Normal Working
For this delinquency worksheet, students read and complete ten different exercises, including providing examples of theories, matching ideas to theorists, writing about their opinions, and comprehension questions about the article.
Curated OER
Introduction to Deviance
In this Introduction to Deviance worksheet, students read some background passages, then perform several exercise such as answering questions about the reading and writing about their own opinions.
Curated OER
Crime and Deviance
In this Crime and Deviance worksheet, students read and answer questions, including applying theories to current events and writing a response to an essay question.
Curated OER
Crime and Deviance
In this Crime and Deviance worksheet, students answer seventy-eight questions, then respond to ten essay questions on these topics.
Curated OER
Madness and Civilization by
In this online interactive worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Foucault's Madness and Civilization. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Social Norms and Deviant Behavior
This is a five-question quiz related to social norms and deviant behavior.
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Deviance: Structural Functional Theory
Explains how structural functional theory can be used to explain social deviant behavior. Describes four functions of deviance that were identified by Durkheim, and the deviant and conformist ways that individuals respond to...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Introduction to Sociology: Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance
Why does social deviance occur? Read about three theories that are grouped according to the three major sociological paradigms: functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1933 1939
Article detailing the development and use of concentration camps in pre-World War II Germany to detain political enemies, subversives, and so-called "social deviants."
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: Theories of Deviance
Read about four theories related to deviance and criminology which have emerged within the past 50 years.
Science Museum, London
Making the Modern World: Defining Mental Illness
Defining mental illness takes into account several deviant behaviors. Find out what psychologists use to determine mental disorders.