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Sociology
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1. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
social control
triad
agents of socialization
in-groups
2. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
clique
front stage
Incapacitation
primary groups
3. When a person has two or more competing roles
social groups
theory of social contract
role conflict
organic solidarity
4. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
societal transformation
4 social revolutions and key inventions
labeling theory
theories deviance
5. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
institutional means
social groups
charismatic authority
mechanical solidarity
6. Leading by being highly permissive
Laissez-faire leadership:
backstage
bridging ties
master status
7. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
post-industrial society
sub urbanization
social capital
studied non-observance
8. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
secondary deviance
social control
Conflict theory
traditional authority
9. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
gender roles
social category
role exit
horticultural society
10. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
surplus
social capital
5 major group tasks
authority
11. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
power
feeling rules
social groups
cultural goal
12. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
charismatic authority
social networking
cultural goal
probation
13. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
6 types of societies
emotion work
societal transformation
primary groups
14. The stages of our life from birth to death
the life course
status
peer group
service work
15. Preparing for future roles
deviance
pastoral society
anticipatory socialization
Conflict theory
16. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
social structure
groupthink
knowledge work
human nature
17. People who are roughly the same age and interests
peer group
(Merton's) Strain Theory
hidden curriculum
theory of social contract
18. What they actually did
role performance
secondary groups
democratic leadership
Laissez-faire leadership:
19. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
Incapacitation
organic solidarity
secondary relationships
Deterrence
20. The alignment of some members of a group against others
stigma
reference groups
coalititon
role exit
21. Occupation within social structures or institutions
status
leadership styles
in-groups
total institutions
22. To much stuff
surplus
mass media
6 types of societies
leadership types
23. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
street crime
6 types of societies
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
primary groups
24. When each person does less when there are more people involved
social loafing
agents of socialization
feeling rules
social institutions
25. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
role
secondary relationships
gender socialization
26. People who are roughly the same age and interests
peer group
role conflict
social loafing
service work
27. Persons influencing each others behavior
corporate crimes
looking glass self
social interaction
democratic leadership
28. Leading by being highly permissive
rational-leagal authority
Laissez-faire leadership:
face saving work
role conflict
29. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
anomie
in-groups
looking glass self
expressive leaders
30. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
gemeinschaft
industrial society
5 major group tasks
three parts of the self
31. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
backstage
economy
societal transformation
bonding ties
32. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
leadership types
crowd
bridging ties
Deterrence
33. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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34. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
agrarian society
economy
master status
impression management
35. A system of providing goods and services
embarrassment
feeling rules
instrumental leader
economy
36. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
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37. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
studied non-observance
social order
theories deviance
social aggregate
38. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
internalization
social loafing
Coercion
sub urbanization
39. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
master status
gemeinschaft
post-industrial society
authoritarion leadership
40. The framework (patterns) or society
social structure
Retribution
labeling theory
bridging ties
41. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
Retribution
leadership styles
coalititon
anticipatory socialization
42. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
agrarian society
achieved status
networking
probation
43. Techniques to salvage a performance
the life course
social aggregate
face saving work
authority
44. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
mass media
dramaturgy
social differentiation
secondary deviance
45. 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')
the particular other
Rehabilitation
Mead: the self and role taking
conformity
46. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
theory of social contract
dramaturgy
social networking
identification
47. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
Retribution
a right of passage
bonding ties
instrumental leader
48. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
weak ties
hidden curriculum
emotion work
leadership styles
49. Any violation of rules or norms
sub urbanization
deviance
service work
impression management
50. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
compliance
status symbols
group cohesion
the life course
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