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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Any violation of rules or norms
looking glass self
deviance
studied non-observance
secondary groups
2. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
street crime
probation
social aggregate
social aggregate
3. Informational jobs
authority
role conflict
Coercion
knowledge work
4. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
weak ties
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
tact
rational-leagal authority
5. The people who join together to reach a goal
social loafing
internalization
gesellschaft
secondary groups
6. 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')
labeling theory
studied non-observance
Rehabilitation
parole
7. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
group cohesion
institutional means
surplus
Four purposes of punishment
8. Occupation within social structures or institutions
looking glass self
status
the life course
human nature
9. 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
role exit
(Merton's) Strain Theory
Conflict theory
authority
10. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
crowd
social control
leadership styles
societal transformation
11. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
rational-leagal authority
groupthink
hidden curriculum
social revolution
12. Assumptions of people's personality
stereotypes
Conflict theory
secondary deviance
social interaction
13. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
master status
social interaction
deviance
crowd
14. Ways in which people express their leadership
role
primary deviance
group cohesion
leadership styles
15. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
bonding ties
conformity
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
gesellschaft
16. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
group cohesion
power
three parts of the self
horticultural society
17. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
role exit
subsistence economy
5 major group tasks
charismatic authority
18. The alignment of some members of a group against others
social capital
compliance
primary relationships
coalititon
19. The death penalty
capital punishment
gender socialization
knowledge work
leader
20. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
recidivism
social groups
authority
21. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
hidden curriculum
bridging ties
leadership styles
in-groups
22. 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
conformity
social networking
status symbols
three parts of the self
23. The goal of a leader within a group
primary groups
expressive leaders
status set
leadership types
24. Status set that society sees as mismatched
front stage
status inconsistency
hunting and gathering
Rehabilitation
25. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
clique
service work
social institutions
6 types of societies
26. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
role
urbanization
capital punishment
cultural goal
27. Any violation of rules or norms
secondary deviance
social interaction
social differentiation
deviance
28. A prediction that causes itself to come true
reference groups
rational-leagal authority
Self-fulfilling prophecy
pastoral society
29. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
social revolution
pastoral society
identification
leadership types
30. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
White-collar ('occupational') crime
role exit
networking
Illegitimate opportunity structures
31. Authority based on custom
traditional authority
conformity
restitution
weak ties
32. A type of economy where you live off the land
tact
subsistence economy
reference groups
expressive leaders
33. Relationships that do not provide much support or social cohesion
anomie
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
weak ties
secondary groups
34. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
role strain
backstage
three parts of the self
expressive leaders
35. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
subsistence economy
egalitarian
gender socialization
Illegitimate opportunity structures
36. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
group dynamics
primary relationships
social control
role performance
37. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
group cohesion
White-collar ('occupational') crime
impression management
studied non-observance
38. Committing crime after released from prison
primary relationships
face saving work
social loafing
recidivism
39. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
pastoral society
role strain
Incapacitation
mechanical solidarity
40. The stages of our life from birth to death
feeling rules
the life course
emotion work
dramaturgy
41. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
charismatic authority
Laissez-faire leadership:
pastoral society
gender socialization
42. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
social aggregate
theory of social contract
discretion
leadership types
43. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
horticultural society
Coercion
5 major group tasks
traditional authority
44. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
Retribution
role exit
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
secondary deviance
45. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
recidivism
find nature nurture debate
theories deviance
expressive leaders
46. What they actually did
achieved status
coalititon
social category
role performance
47. Based on pasturing of animals
(Merton's) Strain Theory
pastoral society
role conflict
leadership styles
48. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
deviance
sub urbanization
re-socialization
instrumental leader
49. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
4 social revolutions and key inventions
service work
cultural goal
group dynamics
50. Techniques to salvage a performance
post-industrial society
face saving work
Differential Association
stereotypes