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Drugs and Society
Test 2
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Sociology
Undergraduate 4
11/11/2009

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What was the first federal law to regulate drugs?
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The Native Races Act
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Anslinger;s gore file is associated with what federal drug law?
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Marijuana Tax Act
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According to one of the conflict models of law, those individuals who organize resistance to the system and attempt to show that the system does not work for everyone are called what?
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Social Dynamite
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The Pure food and Drug Act best reflects which model of law?
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Consensus
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The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (Controlled Substance Act) focused on which aspect of the drug problem?
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Supply and Demand
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Communitarian rhetoric promotes what type of policies?
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Proactive
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Individualistic rhetoric promotes what type of policies?
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Reactive
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Which model of drug use corresponds to punitive policies?
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Choice
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Which model of drug use corresponds to rehabilitative policies?
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Disease
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Which type of policy is most prevalent during the beginnings of a moral panic?
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Proactive Punative
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ASAP (Alcohol Safety and Awareness Program) is an example of what type of drug policy?
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Reactive Rehabilitative
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Most drug policies are . . .
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Reactive Punative
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During the final phase of a moral panic, which type of rhetoric typically increases?
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Individualistic
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What are conditions of a moral panic?
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Increased hostility towards a group of people, an emergence of a social movement to address the threat, an exaggeration of the threat (all of the above)
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The law has very little influence over rates of drug use? (T/F)
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False
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The relationship between the number of gods recognized in a religion and the religious restrictions over drug use is . . .
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Negative- more gods, fewer restrictions
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The relationship between the number of gods recognized in a religion and the use of drugs in religious ceremonies is . . .
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Positive- more gods, more drug use
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What religion uses absolutely no drugs in its ceremonies?
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Buddhism
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The formal writings of Hinduism strictly forbid the use of marijuana. (T/F)
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False
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Mystical religions tend to use drugs only for symbolic purposes. (T/F)
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False
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The Quran formally forbids the use of opium and alcohol. (T/F)
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False
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Drugs are used in religious ceremonies in Hinduism. (T/F)
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True
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Drugs are used in religious ceremonies in Judaism. (T/F)
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True
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Drugs are used in religious ceremonies in Buddhism. (T/F)
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False
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What determines if someone accepts a ritual?
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Membership in a group that practices the ritual
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Over time, the religious functions of drug use have become . . .
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Increasingly irrationalized
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According to the beats, the purpose of drug use was to . . .
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Be creative
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The beat subculture formed around jazz music and . . .
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Bohemian values
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The hippies were more idealistic than the beats. Why?
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They were middle class and the beats were working class
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Where did the hippie “movement” begin?
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Ivy League Colleges
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Which model of law best explains the Harrison Act if we focus on the international reasons this law was passed?
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The Group
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What law is known as the “Grandfather of Drug Laws?”
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The Harrison Act
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The major federal law regulating illegal drugs places drugs into five “schedules.” What are the two factors considered when drugs are scheduled?
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Abuse potential and medical use
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What law currently guides all federal drug laws?
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The Controlled Substances Act
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Which model of law MOST emphasizes public opinion?
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Group
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Drug policies come before drug laws, not after drug laws. (T/F)
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False
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What group of people were more likely to embrace the Beat ideology?
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Prostitutes, street people, junkies
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12-step programs such as AA can be considered as quasi-religions. (T/F)
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True
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What were core values in the hippie subculture?
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Anti-Materialist, individualistic (A and B)
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By 1970, the hippies had divided into what two groups?
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Politicos and Mystics
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Which of the subcultures believed violence was needed to change the world?
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Yippies
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Why did the solidarity of the subculture decrease in the 1970s?
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eir rituals became too common and widespread, drugs use was more tolerated, fewer people were involved in other social movements (All of the above)
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Which sub-subculture has the greatest number of members?
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Mainstreamers
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Which sub-subculture has the greatest number of members?
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Mainstreamers
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Which of the subcultures discussed in class was the most individualistic?
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Yippies
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Today, many drug users are able to use drugs because . . .
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They blend in with the dominant culture, don’t stand out, don’t get in trouble
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Which of the subcultures are best classified as “social drop outs?”
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70's Subculture
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Which of the subcultures was the most materialistic?
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Mainstreamers
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The process whereby the legitimacy of social institutions is undermined is known as what?
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Institutionalization
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How did the process referred to in the previous question help the subculture become increasingly popular among young people in the 1960s?
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Led to social roles being more subjectively defined, created a sense of an-a-me, led to an emphasis of identity and finding yourself.
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Prior to the rise of the dominant drug subculture in the United States, we have focused on what type of individualism?
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Biblical, Utilitarian, Republican, Institutionalized, Expressive (None of the above)
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The U.S. drug subculture focused on what type of individualism?
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Rampant
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According to lecture and your readings, which of the following is THE MOST IMPORTANT function of the drug subculture?
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Access to the drug
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Be able to list five functions that drugs can fulfill in a religious context. Which general type of functions become more prevalent as the number of deities in a religion decrease?
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Offerings to Spirits, visions, healing power, purification, transformation
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Be able to list the four structural conditions that allowed the subculture of the 1960s to become so large
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- increased number of young people, increased number of people going to college, other social movements (civil rights, environmental, gay rights), general affluence of the US
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Be able to diagram the three models of law discussed in class
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Consensus > Law > Order = Grass Roots, Consensus; Conflict > One group wins > Law > Order = Group; Conflict > Elites win > Law > Order = Elite
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