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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a person has two or more competing roles
social groups
societal transformation
role conflict
traditional authority
2. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
leadership types
6 types of societies
economy
hunting and gathering
3. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
secondary groups
status
out-groups
secondary deviance
4. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
leadership styles
power
role strain
out-groups
5. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
social aggregate
Conflict theory
gesellschaft
traditional authority
6. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'
mechanical solidarity
expressive leaders
secondary deviance
egalitarian
7. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
mass media
social aggregate
stigma
status set
8. In text book
find nature nurture debate
leadership types
gemeinschaft
bonding ties
9. Any violation of rules or norms
Mead: the self and role taking
deviance
authoritarion leadership
restitution
10. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
social capital
theory of social contract
corporate crimes
11. Process that teaches culture to group members
social groups
theories deviance
knowledge work
socialization
12. Based on information services and high technology
expressive leaders
socialization
leader
post-industrial society
13. A type of economy where you live off the land
subsistence economy
total institutions
feeling rules
probation
14. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
social loafing
Retribution
front stage
4 social revolutions and key inventions
15. Assumptions of people's personality
networking
stereotypes
deviance
bonding ties
16. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
social order
instrumental leader
horticultural society
parole
17. Leaving a role
Four purposes of punishment
Incapacitation
knowledge work
role exit
18. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
theories deviance
economy
bridging ties
master status
19. In text book
find nature nurture debate
out-groups
organic solidarity
subsistence economy
20. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
role conflict
cultural goal
6 types of societies
sub urbanization
21. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
role taking
feeling rules
dyad
22. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
Illegitimate opportunity structures
agents of socialization
juvenile crime
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
23. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
face saving work
leader
dramaturgy
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
24. Leaving a role
role taking
role exit
role conflict
gesellschaft
25. Social positions earned or obtained
achieved status
gemeinschaft
triad
rational-leagal authority
26. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
emotion work
stigma
impression management
juvenile crime
27. Techniques to salvage a performance
organic solidarity
face saving work
mechanical solidarity
social institutions
28. Based on pasturing of animals
bonding ties
probation
pastoral society
social loafing
29. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
street crime
surplus
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
Illegitimate opportunity structures
30. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
Illegitimate opportunity structures
face saving work
social control
31. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
role
instrumental leader
social loafing
group cohesion
32. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
White-collar ('occupational') crime
tact
anomie
front stage
33. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
4 social revolutions and key inventions
studied non-observance
labeling theory
Differential Association
34. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
leadership types
probation
role
primary groups
35. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
social control
pastoral society
gender socialization
juvenile crime
36. Status set that society sees as mismatched
institutional means
mechanical solidarity
status inconsistency
authority
37. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
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38. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
secondary deviance
master status
knowledge work
coalititon
39. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
tact
impression management
a right of passage
gender roles
40. Informational jobs
Four purposes of punishment
the life course
knowledge work
social order
41. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
reference groups
stigma
social institutions
embarrassment
42. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
crowd
criminal justice system
economy
mechanical solidarity
43. A type of economy where you live off the land
subsistence economy
agrarian society
dyad
industrial society
44. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
the particular other
White-collar ('occupational') crime
Differential Association
Laissez-faire leadership:
45. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
mechanical solidarity
instrumental leader
Incapacitation
cultural goal
46. The alignment of some members of a group against others
pastoral society
crowd
coalititon
theories deviance
47. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
industrial society
gender roles
mass media
parole
48. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
ascribed status
institutional means
authoritarion leadership
group dynamics
49. 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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50. 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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