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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. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
emotion work
group cohesion
networking
weak ties
2. Large movement of people from country to city
societal transformation
agents of socialization
triad
urbanization
3. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
mechanical solidarity
dramaturgy
agents of socialization
group cohesion
4. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
studied non-observance
role
compliance
industrial society
5. ID - Ego - super ego
stereotypes
feeling rules
impression management
three parts of the self
6. A group with three members
triad
dramaturgy
gemeinschaft
restitution
7. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
social loafing
the life course
gender socialization
tact
8. A type of economy where you live off the land
subsistence economy
traditional authority
primary deviance
primary groups
9. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
Deterrence
labeling theory
group dynamics
status inconsistency
10. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
sub urbanization
primary deviance
corporate crimes
social structure
11. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
egalitarian
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
total institutions
traditional authority
12. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
peer group
primary relationships
group dynamics
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
13. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
5 major group tasks
authoritarion leadership
recidivism
social networking
14. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
Coercion
identification
organic solidarity
front stage
15. A system of providing goods and services
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
mass media
economy
surplus
16. Occupation within social structures or institutions
social aggregate
status
Coercion
street crime
17. All the statuses
economy
the life course
bridging ties
status set
18. What the audience sees
triad
6 types of societies
front stage
anticipatory socialization
19. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
charismatic authority
group cohesion
pastoral society
role strain
20. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
Illegitimate opportunity structures
Coercion
primary deviance
clique
21. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
role taking
theory of social contract
(Merton's) Strain Theory
5 major group tasks
22. Ways in which people express their leadership
discretion
stigma
leadership styles
parole
23. Process that teaches culture to group members
socialization
social groups
bridging ties
knowledge work
24. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
leadership styles
social differentiation
bonding ties
out-groups
25. To much stuff
find nature nurture debate
6 types of societies
surplus
feeling rules
26. Social positions earned or obtained
(Merton's) Strain Theory
democratic leadership
achieved status
coalititon
27. Virtual transitions between status
triad
probation
status
a right of passage
28. Persons influencing each others behavior
social interaction
social capital
role conflict
egalitarian
29. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
criminal justice system
pastoral society
(Merton's) Strain Theory
role strain
30. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
Incapacitation
5 major group tasks
status
status set
31. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
the particular other
White-collar ('occupational') crime
achieved status
organic solidarity
32. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
embarrassment
dramaturgy
social capital
power
33. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
compliance
Illegitimate opportunity structures
studied non-observance
(Merton's) Strain Theory
34. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
status set
primary groups
reference groups
groupthink
35. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
impression management
social capital
hunting and gathering
role strain
36. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
capital punishment
rational-leagal authority
restitution
status set
37. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
role taking
social control
mechanical solidarity
post-industrial society
38. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
discretion
social capital
social revolution
Four purposes of punishment
39. Informational jobs
knowledge work
mass media
social aggregate
rational-leagal authority
40. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
front stage
Mead: the self and role taking
street crime
Deterrence
41. Based on pasturing of animals
5 major group tasks
social category
pastoral society
social control
42. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
6 types of societies
clique
dyad
horticultural society
43. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
deviance
looking glass self
social interaction
secondary relationships
44. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
expressive leaders
(Merton's) Strain Theory
gemeinschaft
authoritarion leadership
45. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
stereotypes
peer group
social aggregate
social differentiation
46. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
in-groups
hidden curriculum
Rehabilitation
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
47. Any violation of rules or norms
deviance
status inconsistency
(Merton's) Strain Theory
Laissez-faire leadership:
48. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
authoritarion leadership
networking
role taking
Four purposes of punishment
49. Relationships that cross social barriers
bridging ties
group dynamics
Deterrence
Self-fulfilling prophecy
50. People who are roughly the same age and interests
peer group
urbanization
juvenile crime
stigma