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Sociology
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humanities
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
Deterrence
recidivism
group dynamics
social revolution
2. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
societal transformation
backstage
corporate crimes
role exit
3. The death penalty
capital punishment
dyad
backstage
power
4. Leaving a role
Retribution
social institutions
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
role exit
5. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
charismatic authority
power
agents of socialization
societal transformation
6. The framework (patterns) or society
socialization
status
social structure
agents of socialization
7. Large movement of people from country to city
group dynamics
studied non-observance
urbanization
knowledge work
8. The violation of norms written into law
crime
bridging ties
primary deviance
gender socialization
9. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
industrial society
social institutions
primary deviance
recidivism
10. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
theories deviance
secondary relationships
compliance
social category
11. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
Differential Association
sub urbanization
bridging ties
hidden curriculum
12. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
criminal justice system
Coercion
secondary groups
White-collar ('occupational') crime
13. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
charismatic authority
secondary relationships
agrarian society
emotion work
14. Social positions earned or obtained
cultural goal
crowd
leader
achieved status
15. Ways in which people express their leadership
secondary deviance
leadership styles
gemeinschaft
social interaction
16. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
re-socialization
theories deviance
knowledge work
internalization
17. The important expectations of a particular person that a child wishes to please the generalized other - The expectations of a society taken into account when shaping their own behavior
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
knowledge work
the particular other
social category
18. A group of just two people
discretion
social networking
hunting and gathering
dyad
19. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
total institutions
out-groups
instrumental leader
groupthink
20. What they actually did
leadership styles
leader
secondary groups
role performance
21. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
5 major group tasks
in-groups
mechanical solidarity
role exit
22. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
societal transformation
primary groups
4 social revolutions and key inventions
probation
23. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
probation
groupthink
tact
primary groups
24. Leading by trying to reach consensus
democratic leadership
socialization
surplus
achieved status
25. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
the life course
social interaction
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
secondary relationships
26. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
a right of passage
secondary deviance
social control
Deterrence
27. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment
White-collar ('occupational') crime
face saving work
compliance
looking glass self
28. Assumptions of people's personality
stereotypes
bridging ties
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
role conflict
29. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
leader
role taking
Illegitimate opportunity structures
social revolution
30. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
gemeinschaft
primary groups
find nature nurture debate
theories deviance
31. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
out-groups
juvenile crime
Illegitimate opportunity structures
identification
32. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
leadership types
Differential Association
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
anomie
33. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
socialization
studied non-observance
service work
role
34. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
master status
Laissez-faire leadership:
service work
social structure
35. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
social loafing
bridging ties
6 types of societies
face saving work
36. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
clique
Deterrence
authoritarion leadership
parole
37. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
theories deviance
probation
clique
role taking
38. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
juvenile crime
group cohesion
gemeinschaft
studied non-observance
39. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
secondary relationships
anticipatory socialization
tact
power
40. The stages of our life from birth to death
social loafing
the particular other
the life course
find nature nurture debate
41. To much stuff
find nature nurture debate
embarrassment
White-collar ('occupational') crime
surplus
42. Persons influencing each others behavior
role exit
bonding ties
primary groups
social interaction
43. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
dramaturgy
backstage
in-groups
social capital
44. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
social differentiation
role performance
identification
hidden curriculum
45. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
Incapacitation
three parts of the self
post-industrial society
group dynamics
46. Material items that indicate one's status
Four purposes of punishment
hidden curriculum
Self-fulfilling prophecy
status symbols
47. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
networking
coalititon
primary deviance
role strain
48. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
service work
6 types of societies
status inconsistency
5 major group tasks
49. Informational jobs
authoritarion leadership
economy
knowledge work
social capital
50. Status set that society sees as mismatched
weak ties
democratic leadership
conformity
status inconsistency