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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. Realization of flaws
crowd
role performance
status symbols
embarrassment
2. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
corporate crimes
industrial society
social loafing
status
3. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
hidden curriculum
the life course
probation
looking glass self
4. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
rational-leagal authority
gesellschaft
secondary relationships
expressive leaders
5. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
corporate crimes
out-groups
agents of socialization
social structure
6. People who are roughly the same age and interests
Self-fulfilling prophecy
peer group
embarrassment
the particular other
7. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
social control
probation
dramaturgy
corporate crimes
8. ID - Ego - super ego
impression management
three parts of the self
expressive leaders
recidivism
9. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
networking
social control
leadership types
identification
10. Social positions earned or obtained
deviance
internalization
achieved status
impression management
11. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
(Merton's) Strain Theory
ascribed status
internalization
re-socialization
12. Material items that indicate one's status
status symbols
organic solidarity
status inconsistency
horticultural society
13. ID - Ego - super ego
social groups
three parts of the self
the life course
primary relationships
14. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
internalization
out-groups
dramaturgy
weak ties
15. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
charismatic authority
cultural goal
role
theory of social contract
16. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
identification
hidden curriculum
find nature nurture debate
authority
17. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
secondary relationships
capital punishment
feeling rules
social groups
18. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
Laissez-faire leadership:
probation
dramaturgy
human nature
19. Informational jobs
(Merton's) Strain Theory
the life course
6 types of societies
knowledge work
20. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
coalititon
weak ties
networking
4 social revolutions and key inventions
21. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
parole
identification
charismatic authority
discretion
22. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
social interaction
Self-fulfilling prophecy
emotion work
bonding ties
23. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
sub urbanization
knowledge work
status inconsistency
agents of socialization
24. When each person does less when there are more people involved
social loafing
the life course
a right of passage
triad
25. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
cultural goal
dramaturgy
human nature
groupthink
26. Material items that indicate one's status
status symbols
service work
embarrassment
ascribed status
27. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
organic solidarity
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
knowledge work
28. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
in-groups
tact
democratic leadership
role conflict
29. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
group dynamics
status set
status
in-groups
30. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
bonding ties
charismatic authority
studied non-observance
post-industrial society
31. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
criminal justice system
secondary relationships
mechanical solidarity
internalization
32. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
mechanical solidarity
restitution
4 social revolutions and key inventions
re-socialization
33. The alignment of some members of a group against others
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
reference groups
coalititon
social control
34. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
stereotypes
in-groups
hunting and gathering
face saving work
35. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
social differentiation
ascribed status
urbanization
face saving work
36. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
criminal justice system
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
groupthink
front stage
37. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
group cohesion
backstage
horticultural society
Incapacitation
38. Authority based on custom
sub urbanization
secondary groups
surplus
traditional authority
39. Any violation of rules or norms
rational-leagal authority
deviance
human nature
feeling rules
40. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
crowd
studied non-observance
identification
primary relationships
41. 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
sub urbanization
gender roles
theories deviance
labeling theory
42. When a person has two or more competing roles
anticipatory socialization
role conflict
democratic leadership
coalititon
43. Occupation within social structures or institutions
status
front stage
capital punishment
ascribed status
44. Leading by being highly permissive
Laissez-faire leadership:
5 major group tasks
sub urbanization
authority
45. Leading by trying to reach consensus
role performance
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
democratic leadership
5 major group tasks
46. The framework (patterns) or society
social aggregate
social loafing
social structure
4 social revolutions and key inventions
47. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female
gender socialization
role taking
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
conformity
48. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
power
service work
clique
role
49. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
Incapacitation
Deterrence
authoritarion leadership
knowledge work
50. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
role exit
social differentiation
secondary relationships
social structure