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Sociology
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humanities
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
egalitarian
parole
instrumental leader
role strain
2. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
theory of social contract
role performance
horticultural society
emotion work
3. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
hidden curriculum
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
internalization
Self-fulfilling prophecy
4. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
embarrassment
emotion work
out-groups
criminal justice system
5. A prediction that causes itself to come true
bridging ties
deviance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
4 social revolutions and key inventions
6. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
social capital
Differential Association
service work
human nature
7. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
agrarian society
crowd
recidivism
probation
8. ID - Ego - super ego
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
street crime
three parts of the self
role strain
9. Informational jobs
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
identification
knowledge work
networking
10. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
Incapacitation
secondary relationships
instrumental leader
surplus
11. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
social order
Incapacitation
master status
clique
12. Informational jobs
recidivism
Mead: the self and role taking
ascribed status
knowledge work
13. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
gender socialization
social control
reference groups
stigma
14. Leading by trying to reach consensus
groupthink
conformity
social aggregate
democratic leadership
15. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
achieved status
human nature
leadership styles
institutional means
16. Committing crime after released from prison
recidivism
cultural goal
weak ties
labeling theory
17. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
primary deviance
rational-leagal authority
the life course
group cohesion
18. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
power
recidivism
looking glass self
out-groups
19. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
rational-leagal authority
cultural goal
restitution
street crime
20. Ways in which people express their leadership
cultural goal
leadership styles
status inconsistency
achieved status
21. The death penalty
societal transformation
status symbols
role strain
capital punishment
22. All the statuses
status set
agents of socialization
street crime
secondary deviance
23. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
primary groups
socialization
group dynamics
charismatic authority
24. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
cultural goal
gender socialization
authority
find nature nurture debate
25. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
socialization
Four purposes of punishment
studied non-observance
industrial society
26. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
group cohesion
mechanical solidarity
status inconsistency
a right of passage
27. Leading by trying to reach consensus
internalization
democratic leadership
social interaction
organic solidarity
28. The death penalty
White-collar ('occupational') crime
capital punishment
primary deviance
street crime
29. The people who join together to reach a goal
total institutions
social groups
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
secondary groups
30. The framework (patterns) or society
secondary relationships
embarrassment
social structure
compliance
31. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
crowd
Illegitimate opportunity structures
dramaturgy
instrumental leader
32. Virtual transitions between status
a right of passage
discretion
master status
agents of socialization
33. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
leader
agrarian society
discretion
looking glass self
34. A group with three members
Differential Association
triad
probation
dyad
35. Leaving a role
anticipatory socialization
hidden curriculum
Conflict theory
role exit
36. The stages of our life from birth to death
dramaturgy
the life course
gender roles
post-industrial society
37. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
role strain
triad
social institutions
role exit
38. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
group cohesion
secondary relationships
front stage
total institutions
39. 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
expressive leaders
primary deviance
labeling theory
emotion work
40. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
status symbols
Deterrence
group cohesion
4 social revolutions and key inventions
41. Persons influencing each others behavior
embarrassment
social interaction
street crime
deviance
42. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
capital punishment
role
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
mass media
43. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
bonding ties
Four purposes of punishment
theory of social contract
compliance
44. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
social loafing
crowd
social capital
a right of passage
45. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
impression management
charismatic authority
mass media
Incapacitation
46. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'
identification
5 major group tasks
role strain
secondary deviance
47. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
primary deviance
social order
secondary groups
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
48. The violation of norms written into law
social networking
crime
subsistence economy
parole
49. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
out-groups
Self-fulfilling prophecy
embarrassment
master status
50. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
find nature nurture debate
(Merton's) Strain Theory
rational-leagal authority
labeling theory