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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
economy
clique
leadership types
reference groups
2. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
secondary relationships
group cohesion
ascribed status
role conflict
3. The alignment of some members of a group against others
coalititon
anomie
primary groups
a right of passage
4. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
probation
rational-leagal authority
clique
street crime
5. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
discretion
coalititon
stereotypes
identification
6. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
hunting and gathering
human nature
theory of social contract
bonding ties
7. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
institutional means
backstage
hunting and gathering
ascribed status
8. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
social loafing
authoritarion leadership
primary deviance
Illegitimate opportunity structures
9. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
dyad
role strain
gemeinschaft
secondary deviance
10. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
gender socialization
weak ties
social control
networking
11. Based on large scale agriculture
crowd
Incapacitation
status inconsistency
agrarian society
12. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
social category
find nature nurture debate
Illegitimate opportunity structures
institutional means
13. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
industrial society
corporate crimes
primary deviance
compliance
14. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
cultural goal
corporate crimes
restitution
primary deviance
15. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
industrial society
re-socialization
discretion
institutional means
16. Leaving a role
theory of social contract
role exit
tact
theory of social contract
17. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
authority
the life course
status
secondary relationships
18. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
post-industrial society
in-groups
restitution
coalititon
19. Relationships that cross social barriers
bridging ties
instrumental leader
street crime
looking glass self
20. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
group cohesion
Conflict theory
6 types of societies
crime
21. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
social aggregate
street crime
achieved status
social order
22. Persons influencing each others behavior
corporate crimes
primary deviance
restitution
social interaction
23. Preparing for future roles
criminal justice system
agents of socialization
power
anticipatory socialization
24. Social positions earned or obtained
(Merton's) Strain Theory
primary groups
theory of social contract
achieved status
25. A prediction that causes itself to come true
egalitarian
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
authoritarion leadership
Self-fulfilling prophecy
26. Status set that society sees as mismatched
social capital
triad
status inconsistency
economy
27. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
5 major group tasks
peer group
rational-leagal authority
sub urbanization
28. Someone who influences other people
role strain
leader
crime
social groups
29. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
clique
networking
mass media
theory of social contract
30. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
internalization
social loafing
Retribution
4 social revolutions and key inventions
31. When each person does less when there are more people involved
feeling rules
social loafing
cultural goal
knowledge work
32. Committing crime after released from prison
recidivism
group dynamics
clique
rational-leagal authority
33. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
group cohesion
total institutions
service work
leadership types
34. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
compliance
societal transformation
criminal justice system
social category
35. Any violation of rules or norms
social structure
bridging ties
deviance
Incapacitation
36. Based on information services and high technology
social control
backstage
Mead: the self and role taking
post-industrial society
37. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
clique
networking
ascribed status
urbanization
38. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
secondary relationships
democratic leadership
crowd
charismatic authority
39. 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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40. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
embarrassment
subsistence economy
surplus
street crime
41. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'
role strain
anomie
Deterrence
secondary deviance
42. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
master status
status symbols
egalitarian
social category
43. 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
bridging ties
conformity
instrumental leader
secondary groups
44. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
parole
reference groups
anticipatory socialization
charismatic authority
45. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
leader
total institutions
egalitarian
46. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
dramaturgy
social revolution
bridging ties
5 major group tasks
47. Realization of flaws
gender socialization
secondary relationships
dramaturgy
embarrassment
48. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
secondary deviance
social networking
White-collar ('occupational') crime
restitution
49. A system of providing goods and services
human nature
social groups
economy
agrarian society
50. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
hidden curriculum
dyad
Illegitimate opportunity structures
gender socialization