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Sociology
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Subject
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Virtual transitions between status
crowd
compliance
rational-leagal authority
a right of passage
2. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
egalitarian
gender socialization
authority
theories deviance
3. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
secondary relationships
leadership styles
social groups
primary groups
4. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
power
social control
White-collar ('occupational') crime
embarrassment
5. A group of just two people
charismatic authority
authority
reference groups
dyad
6. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
role
hunting and gathering
social networking
stigma
7. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
the particular other
street crime
White-collar ('occupational') crime
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
8. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
cultural goal
total institutions
urbanization
identification
9. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
group cohesion
triad
parole
probation
10. The people who join together to reach a goal
role performance
surplus
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
secondary groups
11. Based on information services and high technology
corporate crimes
capital punishment
post-industrial society
crowd
12. A system of providing goods and services
social interaction
5 major group tasks
stigma
economy
13. ID - Ego - super ego
three parts of the self
agents of socialization
social structure
societal transformation
14. A group with three members
internalization
triad
groupthink
role taking
15. When a person has two or more competing roles
social groups
role conflict
authoritarion leadership
front stage
16. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
(Merton's) Strain Theory
sub urbanization
dramaturgy
hidden curriculum
17. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
bonding ties
hidden curriculum
probation
rational-leagal authority
18. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
total institutions
social aggregate
status
mass media
19. The degree to which we will alter our attitudes and/or behaviors to fit into our perceived expectations of what is appropriate for our status or group
criminal justice system
charismatic authority
agents of socialization
conformity
20. Large movement of people from country to city
urbanization
labeling theory
social structure
Deterrence
21. Material items that indicate one's status
status symbols
Mead: the self and role taking
weak ties
coalititon
22. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
social interaction
internalization
societal transformation
horticultural society
23. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
organic solidarity
social aggregate
the particular other
industrial society
24. Assigned status given without consent ( female - daughter - sister ect.)
the particular other
sub urbanization
ascribed status
authoritarion leadership
25. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
anticipatory socialization
socialization
reference groups
role strain
26. The view [developed by Howard Becker] that the labels people are given affect 1. The way others respond to that person [interaction] - and 2. their own self-concept [internalization] Thus channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conform
societal transformation
labeling theory
societal transformation
bridging ties
27. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
subsistence economy
out-groups
horticultural society
social aggregate
28. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
gesellschaft
stigma
impression management
recidivism
29. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
authority
clique
social networking
impression management
30. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
hidden curriculum
traditional authority
stigma
compliance
31. In text book
rational-leagal authority
find nature nurture debate
Rehabilitation
economy
32. Leading by giving orders
authoritarion leadership
groupthink
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
social loafing
33. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
find nature nurture debate
reference groups
emotion work
embarrassment
34. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
identification
leadership types
backstage
35. Social positions earned or obtained
the life course
crowd
total institutions
achieved status
36. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
status set
gender socialization
charismatic authority
impression management
37. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
a right of passage
criminal justice system
theory of social contract
urbanization
38. What they actually did
role performance
4 social revolutions and key inventions
knowledge work
recidivism
39. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
master status
conformity
social capital
mechanical solidarity
40. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
a right of passage
instrumental leader
emotion work
front stage
41. Committing crime after released from prison
Conflict theory
recidivism
role performance
5 major group tasks
42. Leading by giving orders
authoritarion leadership
embarrassment
social structure
anticipatory socialization
43. Based on information services and high technology
Differential Association
the particular other
post-industrial society
gemeinschaft
44. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
anticipatory socialization
status set
Coercion
embarrassment
45. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
4 social revolutions and key inventions
theory of social contract
5 major group tasks
secondary groups
46. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
corporate crimes
instrumental leader
leadership styles
horticultural society
47. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
capital punishment
impression management
social order
master status
48. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
primary relationships
human nature
coalititon
secondary relationships
49. What the audience sees
dramaturgy
mechanical solidarity
discretion
front stage
50. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
restitution
mechanical solidarity
conformity
backstage