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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. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
group cohesion
horticultural society
secondary relationships
gender roles
2. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
Illegitimate opportunity structures
compliance
social institutions
re-socialization
3. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
Four purposes of punishment
Retribution
surplus
hunting and gathering
4. Based on pasturing of animals
looking glass self
social differentiation
pastoral society
institutional means
5. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
Illegitimate opportunity structures
mass media
face saving work
6. To much stuff
power
crowd
street crime
surplus
7. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
impression management
institutional means
Differential Association
Mead: the self and role taking
8. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
parole
authority
street crime
find nature nurture debate
9. Virtual transitions between status
emotion work
anomie
tact
a right of passage
10. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
social differentiation
group cohesion
corporate crimes
socialization
11. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
secondary relationships
primary relationships
subsistence economy
group dynamics
12. Based on information services and high technology
juvenile crime
social differentiation
post-industrial society
knowledge work
13. The important expectations of a particular person that a child wishes to please the generalized other - The expectations of a society taken into account when shaping their own behavior
knowledge work
the particular other
social aggregate
social loafing
14. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
anticipatory socialization
hunting and gathering
group dynamics
rational-leagal authority
15. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
cultural goal
juvenile crime
Four purposes of punishment
pastoral society
16. To much stuff
clique
conformity
surplus
Deterrence
17. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
industrial society
group dynamics
agrarian society
primary deviance
18. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
total institutions
subsistence economy
charismatic authority
looking glass self
19. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
Mead: the self and role taking
mass media
role
gender socialization
20. Any violation of rules or norms
face saving work
primary groups
deviance
in-groups
21. What the audience sees
front stage
social groups
labeling theory
industrial society
22. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
egalitarian
traditional authority
re-socialization
anomie
23. Process that teaches culture to group members
three parts of the self
stereotypes
secondary groups
socialization
24. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
4 social revolutions and key inventions
gesellschaft
Coercion
the particular other
25. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
groupthink
Four purposes of punishment
compliance
group dynamics
26. 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
peer group
tact
reference groups
conformity
27. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
social interaction
Rehabilitation
crowd
social differentiation
28. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
identification
social aggregate
sub urbanization
probation
29. Realization of flaws
service work
human nature
embarrassment
theories deviance
30. The people who join together to reach a goal
find nature nurture debate
secondary groups
4 social revolutions and key inventions
expressive leaders
31. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
Conflict theory
social interaction
master status
group cohesion
32. Someone who influences other people
social loafing
corporate crimes
leader
Mead: the self and role taking
33. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
triad
role performance
in-groups
human nature
34. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
industrial society
dramaturgy
6 types of societies
secondary deviance
35. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
mechanical solidarity
groupthink
power
juvenile crime
36. Someone who influences other people
leader
knowledge work
gender roles
impression management
37. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
knowledge work
capital punishment
dramaturgy
theory of social contract
38. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
social institutions
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
Illegitimate opportunity structures
street crime
39. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
urbanization
expressive leaders
pastoral society
Incapacitation
40. Leaving a role
social differentiation
role exit
role
labeling theory
41. People who are roughly the same age and interests
social loafing
leadership types
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
peer group
42. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
reference groups
groupthink
primary groups
social networking
43. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
role
rational-leagal authority
expressive leaders
power
44. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
service work
rational-leagal authority
face saving work
crowd
45. Ways in which people express their leadership
primary relationships
social institutions
leadership styles
the life course
46. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
service work
social differentiation
crime
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
47. Informational jobs
social networking
gender roles
traditional authority
knowledge work
48. Techniques to salvage a performance
anomie
face saving work
Differential Association
role
49. 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')
surplus
Rehabilitation
theory of social contract
clique
50. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
Deterrence
6 types of societies
social institutions
Laissez-faire leadership: