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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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1. Authority based on custom
traditional authority
crowd
authority
social revolution
2. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
agents of socialization
gemeinschaft
in-groups
internalization
3. A group of just two people
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
achieved status
dyad
Laissez-faire leadership:
4. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
social institutions
role conflict
mass media
dyad
5. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
authority
urbanization
front stage
primary relationships
6. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
bonding ties
compliance
corporate crimes
Coercion
7. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
social aggregate
Self-fulfilling prophecy
role taking
hidden curriculum
8. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
triad
Self-fulfilling prophecy
5 major group tasks
leader
9. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
theories deviance
pastoral society
capital punishment
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
10. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
surplus
authoritarion leadership
juvenile crime
compliance
11. Based on information services and high technology
Deterrence
subsistence economy
Laissez-faire leadership:
post-industrial society
12. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
status set
social aggregate
total institutions
a right of passage
13. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
social control
role taking
primary groups
hunting and gathering
14. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
organic solidarity
post-industrial society
gesellschaft
gender roles
15. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
find nature nurture debate
human nature
hidden curriculum
anomie
16. Relationships that cross social barriers
bridging ties
group cohesion
emotion work
capital punishment
17. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
4 social revolutions and key inventions
leadership types
social differentiation
societal transformation
18. Conformity to establish or maintain a relationship with a person or group
recidivism
labeling theory
industrial society
identification
19. In text book
find nature nurture debate
front stage
Self-fulfilling prophecy
social control
20. Based on large scale agriculture
looking glass self
Rehabilitation
agrarian society
gender socialization
21. A type of economy where you live off the land
status
subsistence economy
recidivism
role
22. The violation of norms written into law
crime
primary deviance
out-groups
social control
23. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
societal transformation
institutional means
expressive leaders
social networking
24. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
discretion
theories deviance
compliance
identification
25. Based on information services and high technology
in-groups
total institutions
deviance
post-industrial society
26. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
democratic leadership
status
theory of social contract
egalitarian
27. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
recidivism
Illegitimate opportunity structures
stigma
Coercion
28. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
gesellschaft
instrumental leader
networking
leadership styles
29. Occupation within social structures or institutions
human nature
egalitarian
status
gesellschaft
30. Large movement of people from country to city
power
out-groups
emotion work
urbanization
31. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
street crime
feeling rules
leadership styles
anomie
32. A prediction that causes itself to come true
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
identification
hidden curriculum
33. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
social capital
social groups
Incapacitation
Four purposes of punishment
34. A type of economy where you live off the land
subsistence economy
Incapacitation
4 social revolutions and key inventions
deviance
35. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
theory of social contract
bridging ties
crime
democratic leadership
36. ID - Ego - super ego
triad
economy
three parts of the self
leader
37. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
social interaction
social category
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
social revolution
38. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
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39. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
restitution
Coercion
White-collar ('occupational') crime
probation
40. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
tact
power
surplus
social interaction
41. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
looking glass self
secondary relationships
role strain
achieved status
42. Virtual transitions between status
a right of passage
Four purposes of punishment
deviance
role
43. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
out-groups
authority
Deterrence
group cohesion
44. Large movement of people from country to city
economy
primary deviance
subsistence economy
urbanization
45. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
criminal justice system
egalitarian
authority
role exit
46. Relationships that do not provide much support or social cohesion
weak ties
clique
looking glass self
White-collar ('occupational') crime
47. Realization of flaws
theories deviance
the particular other
embarrassment
role
48. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
find nature nurture debate
hunting and gathering
looking glass self
49. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
Retribution
gesellschaft
role
dramaturgy
50. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
social order
three parts of the self
social category
social differentiation