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Sociology
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humanities
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
gemeinschaft
horticultural society
primary groups
front stage
2. 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
labeling theory
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
a right of passage
role taking
3. Virtual transitions between status
organic solidarity
parole
a right of passage
institutional means
4. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
Incapacitation
social structure
service work
compliance
5. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
authoritarion leadership
groupthink
role performance
6 types of societies
6. The stages of our life from birth to death
conformity
White-collar ('occupational') crime
industrial society
the life course
7. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
dyad
secondary deviance
societal transformation
achieved status
8. What the audience sees
front stage
primary relationships
triad
primary deviance
9. The alignment of some members of a group against others
face saving work
coalititon
hidden curriculum
social differentiation
10. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
pastoral society
societal transformation
status set
Differential Association
11. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
studied non-observance
instrumental leader
criminal justice system
dramaturgy
12. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
ascribed status
surplus
social control
rational-leagal authority
13. A group with three members
leader
deviance
crowd
triad
14. Process that teaches culture to group members
master status
social interaction
socialization
networking
15. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
bonding ties
Self-fulfilling prophecy
social category
Laissez-faire leadership:
16. Occupation within social structures or institutions
mechanical solidarity
social capital
agents of socialization
status
17. When a person has two or more competing roles
Self-fulfilling prophecy
dyad
capital punishment
role conflict
18. To much stuff
surplus
power
socialization
role conflict
19. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
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20. People who are roughly the same age and interests
status set
role
impression management
peer group
21. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
horticultural society
gender socialization
recidivism
charismatic authority
22. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
leadership types
social aggregate
gemeinschaft
authoritarion leadership
23. The goal of a leader within a group
leadership types
Conflict theory
gesellschaft
mass media
24. Based on large scale agriculture
agrarian society
in-groups
leader
post-industrial society
25. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
studied non-observance
role conflict
leader
role performance
26. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
horticultural society
5 major group tasks
social loafing
juvenile crime
27. Based on pasturing of animals
pastoral society
internalization
horticultural society
labeling theory
28. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
Deterrence
restitution
theories deviance
find nature nurture debate
29. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
dramaturgy
social category
mechanical solidarity
probation
30. What they actually did
role performance
role conflict
role taking
6 types of societies
31. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
role exit
compliance
backstage
total institutions
32. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
status symbols
impression management
social groups
gender roles
33. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
theory of social contract
institutional means
hunting and gathering
agrarian society
34. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
Differential Association
Differential Association
crowd
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
35. Process that teaches culture to group members
socialization
crowd
hunting and gathering
juvenile crime
36. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
peer group
primary relationships
authority
group dynamics
37. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
weak ties
ascribed status
looking glass self
(Merton's) Strain Theory
38. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
peer group
primary groups
gender socialization
networking
39. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
horticultural society
clique
industrial society
egalitarian
40. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
role strain
crowd
pastoral society
41. A) The elite group members make up the laws b) The elite group members structure society so that they have more opportunities than others c) Discretion benefits the elite in all parts of the criminal justice system d) The oppressed must organize to r
theory of social contract
primary relationships
social interaction
Conflict theory
42. Preparing for future roles
bridging ties
identification
anticipatory socialization
4 social revolutions and key inventions
43. Relationships that do not provide much support or social cohesion
weak ties
social revolution
status
5 major group tasks
44. Status set that society sees as mismatched
status inconsistency
Illegitimate opportunity structures
emotion work
street crime
45. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
anomie
role strain
charismatic authority
traditional authority
46. The stages of our life from birth to death
theories deviance
the particular other
Incapacitation
the life course
47. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
sub urbanization
Mead: the self and role taking
embarrassment
anticipatory socialization
48. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
crowd
institutional means
groupthink
mass media
49. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
industrial society
hidden curriculum
backstage
juvenile crime
50. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
organic solidarity
reference groups
Differential Association
theory of social contract