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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. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
coalititon
ascribed status
mechanical solidarity
2. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
gesellschaft
pastoral society
triad
achieved status
3. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
theories deviance
hunting and gathering
tact
internalization
4. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
urbanization
secondary relationships
authority
role taking
5. Large movement of people from country to city
economy
total institutions
urbanization
White-collar ('occupational') crime
6. Leading by giving orders
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
authoritarion leadership
5 major group tasks
rational-leagal authority
7. 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
deviance
agrarian society
Conflict theory
power
8. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
secondary relationships
total institutions
authority
bridging ties
9. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
capital punishment
social loafing
human nature
sub urbanization
10. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
feeling rules
stigma
bridging ties
social control
11. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
industrial society
group cohesion
looking glass self
peer group
12. When a person has two or more competing roles
pastoral society
mass media
role conflict
urbanization
13. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
parole
status set
primary deviance
hidden curriculum
14. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
internalization
role
identification
secondary deviance
15. Assigned status given without consent ( female - daughter - sister ect.)
the life course
ascribed status
street crime
cultural goal
16. Techniques to salvage a performance
feeling rules
Illegitimate opportunity structures
face saving work
primary groups
17. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
knowledge work
industrial society
economy
social category
18. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
human nature
Mead: the self and role taking
institutional means
cultural goal
19. Virtual transitions between status
compliance
agrarian society
out-groups
a right of passage
20. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
5 major group tasks
weak ties
subsistence economy
social differentiation
21. A group with three members
theory of social contract
triad
primary groups
primary relationships
22. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
in-groups
Incapacitation
leadership types
discretion
23. Status set that society sees as mismatched
status inconsistency
role exit
mass media
find nature nurture debate
24. Techniques to salvage a performance
role exit
social capital
face saving work
street crime
25. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
stigma
industrial society
egalitarian
theories deviance
26. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
status symbols
mass media
secondary relationships
primary groups
27. Relationships that cross social barriers
mass media
bridging ties
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
White-collar ('occupational') crime
28. Ways in which people express their leadership
social order
4 social revolutions and key inventions
leadership styles
the particular other
29. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
social aggregate
Differential Association
traditional authority
triad
30. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
mass media
role taking
social differentiation
recidivism
31. 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
criminal justice system
labeling theory
horticultural society
role exit
32. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
status set
status inconsistency
conformity
anomie
33. The framework (patterns) or society
4 social revolutions and key inventions
social structure
industrial society
social revolution
34. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
secondary deviance
secondary relationships
4 social revolutions and key inventions
social structure
35. A group of just two people
conformity
social groups
knowledge work
dyad
36. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
dyad
Differential Association
social category
surplus
37. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
gemeinschaft
discretion
agrarian society
re-socialization
38. When each person does less when there are more people involved
capital punishment
secondary relationships
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
social loafing
39. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
secondary groups
economy
stereotypes
role
40. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
Laissez-faire leadership:
dyad
social category
expressive leaders
41. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
Conflict theory
social groups
gesellschaft
Rehabilitation
42. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
leader
mass media
social order
traditional authority
43. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
labeling theory
Laissez-faire leadership:
compliance
Illegitimate opportunity structures
44. 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
conformity
street crime
three parts of the self
social interaction
45. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
Incapacitation
pastoral society
corporate crimes
group cohesion
46. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
crime
authority
Four purposes of punishment
service work
47. Material items that indicate one's status
status symbols
social revolution
secondary groups
leadership styles
48. Any violation of rules or norms
deviance
conformity
social interaction
charismatic authority
49. People who are roughly the same age and interests
Laissez-faire leadership:
organic solidarity
peer group
social networking
50. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
expressive leaders
authoritarion leadership
charismatic authority
role conflict