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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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1. When a person has two or more competing roles
primary groups
theories deviance
role conflict
labeling theory
2. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
authority
social capital
5 major group tasks
coalititon
3. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
recidivism
social aggregate
human nature
4. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
group cohesion
6 types of societies
status
dramaturgy
5. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
social revolution
crime
agrarian society
primary deviance
6. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
primary groups
looking glass self
probation
(Merton's) Strain Theory
7. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
role strain
social aggregate
labeling theory
the particular other
8. ID - Ego - super ego
impression management
three parts of the self
secondary relationships
group cohesion
9. Techniques to salvage a performance
compliance
embarrassment
bonding ties
face saving work
10. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
social control
dyad
bridging ties
front stage
11. When a person has two or more competing roles
theory of social contract
role conflict
labeling theory
mass media
12. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
4 social revolutions and key inventions
discretion
secondary groups
anomie
13. 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')
gesellschaft
Rehabilitation
egalitarian
group dynamics
14. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
social capital
parole
in-groups
agents of socialization
15. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
restitution
capital punishment
authority
egalitarian
16. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
group dynamics
social networking
post-industrial society
17. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
hidden curriculum
Mead: the self and role taking
dramaturgy
status set
18. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
total institutions
feeling rules
Self-fulfilling prophecy
corporate crimes
19. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
status set
compliance
corporate crimes
leadership styles
20. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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21. Authority based on custom
achieved status
deviance
traditional authority
Deterrence
22. Virtual transitions between status
Rehabilitation
tact
knowledge work
a right of passage
23. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
stereotypes
mass media
peer group
industrial society
24. 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
Conflict theory
social category
democratic leadership
impression management
25. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
stigma
gemeinschaft
cultural goal
26. Techniques to salvage a performance
social institutions
face saving work
role exit
master status
27. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
primary groups
group cohesion
6 types of societies
organic solidarity
28. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
re-socialization
dramaturgy
Self-fulfilling prophecy
role strain
29. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
social institutions
Incapacitation
social differentiation
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
30. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Four purposes of punishment
social groups
knowledge work
mass media
31. 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
traditional authority
social differentiation
urbanization
Conflict theory
32. Preparing for future roles
anticipatory socialization
status
subsistence economy
leadership styles
33. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
knowledge work
social control
subsistence economy
feeling rules
34. In text book
gender socialization
Rehabilitation
hunting and gathering
find nature nurture debate
35. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
in-groups
probation
economy
face saving work
36. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
dramaturgy
sub urbanization
(Merton's) Strain Theory
status
37. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
primary groups
social differentiation
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
stereotypes
38. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
organic solidarity
Coercion
horticultural society
Four purposes of punishment
39. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
status set
internalization
group dynamics
street crime
40. What they actually did
bonding ties
role performance
backstage
studied non-observance
41. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
out-groups
juvenile crime
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
urbanization
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
Rehabilitation
status symbols
the particular other
social category
43. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
cultural goal
achieved status
backstage
status
44. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
role
theory of social contract
pastoral society
theories deviance
45. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
corporate crimes
gender roles
secondary deviance
power
46. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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47. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
sub urbanization
gesellschaft
authoritarion leadership
identification
48. 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')
(Merton's) Strain Theory
egalitarian
Rehabilitation
discretion
49. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
bonding ties
(Merton's) Strain Theory
Conflict theory
master status
50. Large movement of people from country to city
social order
urbanization
Illegitimate opportunity structures
democratic leadership