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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. Virtual transitions between status
societal transformation
face saving work
agrarian society
a right of passage
2. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
social loafing
gemeinschaft
social capital
power
3. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
dyad
looking glass self
role taking
primary relationships
4. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
role conflict
a right of passage
master status
looking glass self
5. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
probation
ascribed status
emotion work
gender roles
6. Any violation of rules or norms
deviance
6 types of societies
5 major group tasks
instrumental leader
7. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
status set
Laissez-faire leadership:
group cohesion
crime
8. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
hidden curriculum
hunting and gathering
social category
group dynamics
9. Social positions earned or obtained
achieved status
status symbols
master status
power
10. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
identification
charismatic authority
human nature
sub urbanization
11. Virtual transitions between status
social loafing
human nature
a right of passage
Differential Association
12. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
status
social interaction
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
Laissez-faire leadership:
13. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
crowd
socialization
Incapacitation
traditional authority
14. Ways in which people express their leadership
leadership styles
4 social revolutions and key inventions
mass media
(Merton's) Strain Theory
15. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
social order
deviance
industrial society
role exit
16. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
role conflict
role
master status
Differential Association
17. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
networking
re-socialization
group cohesion
pastoral society
18. Relationships that do not provide much support or social cohesion
capital punishment
weak ties
dyad
power
19. The goal of a leader within a group
clique
out-groups
leadership types
social institutions
20. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
criminal justice system
Mead: the self and role taking
post-industrial society
role exit
21. Large movement of people from country to city
urbanization
post-industrial society
social control
in-groups
22. 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
labeling theory
status inconsistency
bonding ties
status inconsistency
23. The stages of our life from birth to death
tact
street crime
Deterrence
the life course
24. Based on pasturing of animals
social networking
pastoral society
hunting and gathering
networking
25. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
theories deviance
stigma
secondary relationships
charismatic authority
26. Based on information services and high technology
clique
post-industrial society
feeling rules
White-collar ('occupational') crime
27. People who are roughly the same age and interests
societal transformation
peer group
industrial society
instrumental leader
28. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
cultural goal
sub urbanization
Coercion
the life course
29. What the audience sees
internalization
bonding ties
bonding ties
front stage
30. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
theories deviance
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
backstage
social interaction
31. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
mechanical solidarity
industrial society
4 social revolutions and key inventions
gesellschaft
32. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
primary deviance
stigma
dramaturgy
front stage
33. Based on large scale agriculture
agrarian society
criminal justice system
discretion
street crime
34. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
secondary relationships
gesellschaft
emotion work
the life course
35. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
labeling theory
peer group
secondary deviance
Differential Association
36. To much stuff
impression management
bonding ties
conformity
surplus
37. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
identification
rational-leagal authority
group cohesion
anomie
38. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
social aggregate
gender roles
recidivism
authoritarion leadership
39. Realization of flaws
embarrassment
subsistence economy
economy
sub urbanization
40. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
egalitarian
backstage
social category
Illegitimate opportunity structures
41. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
the life course
groupthink
secondary deviance
role strain
42. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
feeling rules
internalization
Self-fulfilling prophecy
agents of socialization
43. Committing crime after released from prison
social institutions
recidivism
expressive leaders
status symbols
44. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
mass media
sub urbanization
social loafing
social category
45. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
social institutions
bonding ties
role strain
social revolution
46. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
weak ties
primary deviance
surplus
cultural goal
47. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
studied non-observance
dyad
urbanization
dramaturgy
48. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
Rehabilitation
Differential Association
gesellschaft
4 social revolutions and key inventions
49. Someone who influences other people
social networking
expressive leaders
leader
the life course
50. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
reference groups
triad
social differentiation
social networking