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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Occupation within social structures or institutions
status
pastoral society
internalization
clique
2. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
Coercion
discretion
Four purposes of punishment
service work
3. All the statuses
status set
social institutions
(Merton's) Strain Theory
organic solidarity
4. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
mass media
societal transformation
groupthink
social revolution
5. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
primary relationships
group dynamics
charismatic authority
anticipatory socialization
6. Based on pasturing of animals
leadership types
pastoral society
4 social revolutions and key inventions
social order
7. Process that teaches culture to group members
primary deviance
socialization
subsistence economy
crime
8. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
primary groups
feeling rules
role strain
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
9. Leading by trying to reach consensus
status symbols
democratic leadership
groupthink
role exit
10. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
probation
social category
Coercion
master status
11. Techniques to salvage a performance
face saving work
socialization
street crime
achieved status
12. Based on information services and high technology
post-industrial society
secondary groups
crowd
pastoral society
13. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
Retribution
in-groups
coalititon
power
14. Informational jobs
knowledge work
social category
post-industrial society
primary relationships
15. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
impression management
Mead: the self and role taking
(Merton's) Strain Theory
instrumental leader
16. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
leader
social loafing
role strain
impression management
17. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
gemeinschaft
embarrassment
internalization
discretion
18. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
service work
expressive leaders
tact
backstage
19. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
re-socialization
mass media
White-collar ('occupational') crime
gender roles
20. The death penalty
role taking
hunting and gathering
capital punishment
deviance
21. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
theories deviance
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
pastoral society
dyad
22. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
corporate crimes
peer group
primary deviance
gender socialization
23. Based on pasturing of animals
hidden curriculum
groupthink
Coercion
pastoral society
24. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
role performance
traditional authority
corporate crimes
democratic leadership
25. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
tact
social institutions
Deterrence
social networking
26. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
agrarian society
the particular other
networking
crime
27. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
egalitarian
authority
primary deviance
tact
28. People who are roughly the same age and interests
gender roles
clique
role taking
peer group
29. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
stereotypes
face saving work
service work
role performance
30. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
4 social revolutions and key inventions
agents of socialization
the particular other
social institutions
31. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
social aggregate
bonding ties
egalitarian
role performance
32. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
agents of socialization
agents of socialization
6 types of societies
role taking
33. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
role
primary groups
weak ties
6 types of societies
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
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
juvenile crime
social order
primary deviance
35. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
(Merton's) Strain Theory
power
embarrassment
authority
36. Re-socializing a criminal so that he or she no longer wants to do crime - but can live a non-criminal life ('Go and sin no more')
crime
the life course
street crime
Rehabilitation
37. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
parole
three parts of the self
backstage
dyad
38. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
sub urbanization
restitution
economy
cultural goal
39. All the statuses
status set
gender socialization
social networking
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
40. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
authoritarion leadership
status symbols
status inconsistency
horticultural society
41. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
corporate crimes
front stage
studied non-observance
internalization
42. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
capital punishment
institutional means
ascribed status
street crime
43. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
institutional means
social interaction
status set
5 major group tasks
44. Assumptions of people's personality
criminal justice system
stereotypes
White-collar ('occupational') crime
studied non-observance
45. Assigned status given without consent ( female - daughter - sister ect.)
networking
anomie
ascribed status
status symbols
46. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
Retribution
out-groups
Mead: the self and role taking
role performance
47. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
surplus
in-groups
studied non-observance
reference groups
48. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
mass media
probation
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
master status
49. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
social institutions
deviance
mass media
knowledge work
50. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
secondary relationships
charismatic authority
Coercion
knowledge work