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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Social positions earned or obtained
achieved status
dyad
a right of passage
primary deviance
2. Leading by trying to reach consensus
identification
Differential Association
the particular other
democratic leadership
3. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
rational-leagal authority
Illegitimate opportunity structures
6 types of societies
status set
4. Someone who influences other people
leader
Laissez-faire leadership:
service work
crowd
5. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
secondary groups
primary groups
authority
reference groups
6. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
democratic leadership
social networking
dramaturgy
groupthink
7. 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
Coercion
industrial society
conformity
social loafing
8. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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9. The people who join together to reach a goal
secondary groups
gender socialization
Mead: the self and role taking
industrial society
10. Social positions earned or obtained
Deterrence
stereotypes
achieved status
criminal justice system
11. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
the particular other
role taking
authority
sub urbanization
12. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
triad
groupthink
surplus
coalititon
13. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
looking glass self
re-socialization
egalitarian
Retribution
14. Based on large scale agriculture
4 social revolutions and key inventions
in-groups
agrarian society
secondary deviance
15. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
Four purposes of punishment
identification
mass media
authoritarion leadership
16. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
three parts of the self
social capital
gender socialization
emotion work
17. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
industrial society
service work
status symbols
human nature
18. Based on pasturing of animals
anticipatory socialization
(Merton's) Strain Theory
power
pastoral society
19. Someone who influences other people
social aggregate
leader
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
crime
20. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
embarrassment
in-groups
4 social revolutions and key inventions
leadership types
21. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
service work
group dynamics
crime
horticultural society
22. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
emotion work
charismatic authority
deviance
a right of passage
23. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
knowledge work
master status
re-socialization
cultural goal
24. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
in-groups
(Merton's) Strain Theory
ascribed status
embarrassment
25. Preparing for future roles
anticipatory socialization
role conflict
coalititon
the particular other
26. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
social loafing
role taking
impression management
4 social revolutions and key inventions
27. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
gender socialization
deviance
charismatic authority
societal transformation
28. When each person does less when there are more people involved
studied non-observance
capital punishment
social loafing
recidivism
29. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
master status
institutional means
hunting and gathering
socialization
30. When a person has two or more competing roles
role conflict
dyad
Differential Association
Four purposes of punishment
31. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
anomie
democratic leadership
stigma
egalitarian
32. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
social aggregate
primary groups
societal transformation
social revolution
33. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
stigma
subsistence economy
5 major group tasks
social loafing
34. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
impression management
social groups
anticipatory socialization
Mead: the self and role taking
35. Based on large scale agriculture
agrarian society
authoritarion leadership
economy
post-industrial society
36. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
front stage
role taking
reference groups
social category
37. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
internalization
expressive leaders
Self-fulfilling prophecy
reference groups
38. What the audience sees
primary groups
cultural goal
front stage
reference groups
39. Relationships that cross social barriers
primary relationships
bridging ties
expressive leaders
dramaturgy
40. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
Mead: the self and role taking
compliance
Rehabilitation
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
41. Leaving a role
social order
stigma
role exit
mechanical solidarity
42. The important expectations of a particular person that a child wishes to please the generalized other - The expectations of a society taken into account when shaping their own behavior
groupthink
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
peer group
the particular other
43. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
total institutions
theories deviance
power
face saving work
44. When each person does less when there are more people involved
status
social loafing
democratic leadership
front stage
45. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
social networking
(Merton's) Strain Theory
agrarian society
social category
46. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
horticultural society
gesellschaft
three parts of the self
parole
47. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
social aggregate
parole
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
48. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
Deterrence
peer group
group cohesion
out-groups
49. ID - Ego - super ego
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
human nature
face saving work
three parts of the self
50. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling
restitution
group dynamics
egalitarian
primary relationships