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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Leading by being highly permissive
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
Laissez-faire leadership:
clique
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
2. For those who feel they can't reach the cultural goals by institutional means there are Four Deviant Paths: a) Innovators b) Ritualists c) Retreatists d) Rebels
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3. The people who join together to reach a goal
groupthink
re-socialization
secondary groups
group dynamics
4. Informational jobs
agents of socialization
institutional means
conformity
knowledge work
5. A group with three members
triad
socialization
Differential Association
in-groups
6. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
criminal justice system
dyad
a right of passage
role performance
7. Any violation of rules or norms
deviance
social capital
conformity
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
8. Persons influencing each others behavior
social interaction
street crime
three parts of the self
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
9. The stages of our life from birth to death
role taking
the life course
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
deviance
10. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
role strain
social aggregate
out-groups
social control
11. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
socialization
gesellschaft
leadership styles
mechanical solidarity
12. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
Differential Association
human nature
gender roles
bridging ties
13. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
recidivism
5 major group tasks
crowd
urbanization
14. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
5 major group tasks
dramaturgy
gesellschaft
weak ties
15. 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
labeling theory
in-groups
ascribed status
16. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
primary relationships
cultural goal
in-groups
urbanization
17. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
re-socialization
group cohesion
tact
compliance
18. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
charismatic authority
discretion
clique
tact
19. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
discretion
4 social revolutions and key inventions
authority
master status
20. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
crowd
role conflict
gender roles
dramaturgy
21. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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22. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
networking
restitution
groupthink
total institutions
23. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
re-socialization
Retribution
compliance
organic solidarity
24. Someone who influences other people
charismatic authority
leader
societal transformation
the life course
25. A group of just two people
role
juvenile crime
total institutions
dyad
26. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
face saving work
societal transformation
post-industrial society
criminal justice system
27. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
sub urbanization
master status
hidden curriculum
Incapacitation
28. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
juvenile crime
power
role
urbanization
29. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
probation
egalitarian
social revolution
triad
30. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
group dynamics
emotion work
studied non-observance
stigma
31. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
cultural goal
gesellschaft
social aggregate
anticipatory socialization
32. 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')
triad
Rehabilitation
gesellschaft
emotion work
33. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
bonding ties
find nature nurture debate
parole
authoritarion leadership
34. A type of economy where you live off the land
expressive leaders
subsistence economy
impression management
traditional authority
35. The alignment of some members of a group against others
deviance
primary relationships
socialization
coalititon
36. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
Coercion
primary deviance
embarrassment
Illegitimate opportunity structures
37. All the statuses
leadership types
status set
restitution
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
38. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
social structure
horticultural society
leadership types
industrial society
39. The violation of norms written into law
rational-leagal authority
criminal justice system
achieved status
crime
40. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
instrumental leader
find nature nurture debate
mass media
role taking
41. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
primary groups
economy
conformity
parole
42. For those who feel they can't reach the cultural goals by institutional means there are Four Deviant Paths: a) Innovators b) Ritualists c) Retreatists d) Rebels
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43. 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
expressive leaders
conformity
knowledge work
Coercion
44. Based on information services and high technology
knowledge work
anticipatory socialization
post-industrial society
conformity
45. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
surplus
social differentiation
social networking
status set
46. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
groupthink
role taking
post-industrial society
knowledge work
47. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
gemeinschaft
expressive leaders
street crime
backstage
48. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
crime
leadership styles
achieved status
juvenile crime
49. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
Deterrence
deviance
gender socialization
sub urbanization
50. A group with three members
egalitarian
triad
bridging ties
Self-fulfilling prophecy