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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Occupation within social structures or institutions
status
capital punishment
democratic leadership
dramaturgy
2. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
triad
group dynamics
status inconsistency
role strain
3. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
expressive leaders
the life course
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
anticipatory socialization
4. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
Illegitimate opportunity structures
in-groups
dyad
Four purposes of punishment
5. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
crowd
groupthink
gender roles
Illegitimate opportunity structures
6. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
power
leadership types
Laissez-faire leadership:
democratic leadership
7. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
weak ties
egalitarian
4 social revolutions and key inventions
role exit
8. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
societal transformation
social differentiation
peer group
hunting and gathering
9. The stages of our life from birth to death
the life course
restitution
urbanization
social loafing
10. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
urbanization
societal transformation
authoritarion leadership
egalitarian
11. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
institutional means
secondary groups
social interaction
role strain
12. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
mass media
social differentiation
anticipatory socialization
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
13. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
front stage
group cohesion
networking
6 types of societies
14. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
role strain
emotion work
recidivism
social order
15. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
primary relationships
organic solidarity
industrial society
Differential Association
16. The view [developed by Howard Becker] that the labels people are given affect 1. The way others respond to that person [interaction] - and 2. their own self-concept [internalization] Thus channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conform
organic solidarity
looking glass self
labeling theory
theories deviance
17. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
status inconsistency
conformity
hunting and gathering
traditional authority
18. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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19. A prediction that causes itself to come true
capital punishment
networking
traditional authority
Self-fulfilling prophecy
20. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
4 social revolutions and key inventions
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
status symbols
cultural goal
21. A prediction that causes itself to come true
theories deviance
(Merton's) Strain Theory
expressive leaders
Self-fulfilling prophecy
22. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
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23. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
social control
role performance
achieved status
weak ties
24. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
institutional means
street crime
agents of socialization
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
25. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
urbanization
socialization
egalitarian
Self-fulfilling prophecy
26. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
parole
social aggregate
group dynamics
group cohesion
27. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
primary groups
Self-fulfilling prophecy
leader
bonding ties
28. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
front stage
networking
internalization
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
29. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
secondary deviance
conformity
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
stigma
30. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
in-groups
role performance
discretion
role
31. All the statuses
secondary relationships
status set
street crime
societal transformation
32. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
dramaturgy
social networking
clique
stereotypes
33. Leaving a role
role exit
corporate crimes
secondary relationships
expressive leaders
34. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
sub urbanization
looking glass self
master status
social aggregate
35. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
bonding ties
street crime
parole
total institutions
36. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
Coercion
three parts of the self
5 major group tasks
impression management
37. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
mass media
stigma
reference groups
industrial society
38. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
status set
service work
backstage
stigma
39. The framework (patterns) or society
horticultural society
Deterrence
social structure
Self-fulfilling prophecy
40. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
impression management
Coercion
re-socialization
4 social revolutions and key inventions
41. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
expressive leaders
anomie
juvenile crime
social category
42. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
studied non-observance
front stage
role
instrumental leader
43. ID - Ego - super ego
authoritarion leadership
three parts of the self
bonding ties
conformity
44. 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
Deterrence
social capital
corporate crimes
45. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
anomie
traditional authority
recidivism
social loafing
46. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
backstage
status symbols
recidivism
expressive leaders
47. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
pastoral society
leadership types
crowd
5 major group tasks
48. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
sub urbanization
urbanization
social capital
hidden curriculum
49. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
social aggregate
gesellschaft
anticipatory socialization
primary deviance
50. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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