Sykes and Matza Described Various Techniques of Neutralization

question 3

Multiple Choice

Sykes and Matza described various techniques of neutralization. Which technique is being used when someone explains that they had to help their friend when the friend got into a fight?

• A) Denial of injury
• B) Appeal to higher loyalties
• C) Denial of a victim
• D) Condemnation of the condemners
• E) Denial of responsibility

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Definitions:

Average Fixed Cost Curve

A graphical representation showing how average fixed costs (costs that do not change with the level of output) decreases as production increases.

Output

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Levels

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Efficient Scale

The level of production that minimizes long-term average total costs, resulting from economies of scale without incurring diseconomies of scale.