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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling
mechanical solidarity
primary relationships
agrarian society
social institutions
2. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
instrumental leader
Retribution
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
mass media
3. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
crowd
social revolution
Conflict theory
gemeinschaft
4. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
institutional means
4 social revolutions and key inventions
Conflict theory
gender socialization
5. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
compliance
peer group
gemeinschaft
networking
6. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
tact
in-groups
human nature
Illegitimate opportunity structures
7. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
primary groups
social revolution
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
democratic leadership
8. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
social groups
dramaturgy
stereotypes
bonding ties
9. Occupation within social structures or institutions
criminal justice system
status
social loafing
gender socialization
10. Material items that indicate one's status
pastoral society
mechanical solidarity
status symbols
anticipatory socialization
11. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
coalititon
agrarian society
4 social revolutions and key inventions
theories deviance
12. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
rational-leagal authority
social groups
crime
achieved status
13. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
bridging ties
instrumental leader
agents of socialization
identification
14. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
three parts of the self
crime
clique
re-socialization
15. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
social category
group cohesion
primary deviance
agents of socialization
16. What the audience sees
secondary deviance
front stage
restitution
egalitarian
17. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
organic solidarity
bridging ties
theory of social contract
leadership types
18. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
mass media
deviance
social differentiation
studied non-observance
19. Leading by being highly permissive
Laissez-faire leadership:
achieved status
human nature
groupthink
20. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
identification
the life course
role taking
social loafing
21. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
the particular other
gender socialization
weak ties
social networking
22. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
out-groups
achieved status
social loafing
bonding ties
23. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
looking glass self
hunting and gathering
horticultural society
anomie
24. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
dramaturgy
ascribed status
criminal justice system
role conflict
25. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
backstage
Four purposes of punishment
role
corporate crimes
26. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
Laissez-faire leadership:
stigma
sub urbanization
parole
27. Preparing for future roles
social loafing
achieved status
anticipatory socialization
Illegitimate opportunity structures
28. The stages of our life from birth to death
social groups
societal transformation
knowledge work
the life course
29. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
corporate crimes
group dynamics
Incapacitation
primary groups
30. When a person has two or more competing roles
role conflict
Coercion
labeling theory
industrial society
31. When each person does less when there are more people involved
Mead: the self and role taking
institutional means
social loafing
subsistence economy
32. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'
social interaction
secondary deviance
criminal justice system
egalitarian
33. Status set that society sees as mismatched
status inconsistency
human nature
identification
status
34. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
parole
reference groups
service work
surplus
35. Committing crime after released from prison
coalititon
recidivism
crime
Self-fulfilling prophecy
36. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
backstage
feeling rules
social aggregate
egalitarian
37. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
impression management
primary groups
4 social revolutions and key inventions
5 major group tasks
38. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
expressive leaders
mass media
urbanization
societal transformation
39. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
restitution
Four purposes of punishment
tact
primary relationships
40. Leading by trying to reach consensus
democratic leadership
knowledge work
Illegitimate opportunity structures
horticultural society
41. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
crime
agents of socialization
total institutions
expressive leaders
42. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
social differentiation
three parts of the self
conformity
social networking
43. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
restitution
human nature
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
clique
44. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
post-industrial society
the particular other
group cohesion
peer group
45. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
(Merton's) Strain Theory
gender roles
egalitarian
charismatic authority
46. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
status inconsistency
gender socialization
achieved status
anomie
47. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
discretion
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
front stage
Four purposes of punishment
48. The death penalty
stigma
backstage
capital punishment
economy
49. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
social groups
face saving work
group dynamics
industrial society
50. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
capital punishment
mass media
societal transformation
internalization