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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. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
compliance
Differential Association
authority
identification
2. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
charismatic authority
role exit
rational-leagal authority
achieved status
3. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
street crime
group dynamics
Laissez-faire leadership:
Coercion
4. Techniques to salvage a performance
face saving work
stigma
conformity
coalititon
5. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
(Merton's) Strain Theory
emotion work
theory of social contract
White-collar ('occupational') crime
6. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
stereotypes
group dynamics
looking glass self
subsistence economy
7. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
mass media
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Laissez-faire leadership:
leader
8. Leading by being highly permissive
front stage
Laissez-faire leadership:
find nature nurture debate
dyad
9. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
deviance
primary relationships
social category
gesellschaft
10. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
studied non-observance
Four purposes of punishment
mass media
out-groups
11. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
Differential Association
Laissez-faire leadership:
role strain
peer group
12. Relationships that cross social barriers
Rehabilitation
social capital
bridging ties
leadership styles
13. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
out-groups
mechanical solidarity
gesellschaft
14. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
gender socialization
primary relationships
instrumental leader
parole
15. Informational jobs
probation
knowledge work
societal transformation
status symbols
16. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
gender roles
5 major group tasks
social interaction
role exit
17. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
recidivism
impression management
Four purposes of punishment
parole
18. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
organic solidarity
gemeinschaft
economy
gesellschaft
19. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
hidden curriculum
charismatic authority
cultural goal
20. When a person has two or more competing roles
Coercion
secondary deviance
internalization
role conflict
21. 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
role performance
the particular other
bonding ties
social order
22. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
societal transformation
emotion work
social institutions
impression management
23. Someone who influences other people
triad
(Merton's) Strain Theory
leader
industrial society
24. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
subsistence economy
egalitarian
horticultural society
face saving work
25. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
achieved status
master status
embarrassment
networking
26. 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
Mead: the self and role taking
labeling theory
probation
subsistence economy
27. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
group dynamics
discretion
social loafing
social control
28. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
knowledge work
group dynamics
Illegitimate opportunity structures
6 types of societies
29. Preparing for future roles
role strain
dramaturgy
anticipatory socialization
social capital
30. People who are roughly the same age and interests
surplus
three parts of the self
capital punishment
peer group
31. Preparing for future roles
juvenile crime
anticipatory socialization
status symbols
secondary deviance
32. Material items that indicate one's status
social interaction
out-groups
conformity
status symbols
33. Informational jobs
feeling rules
role taking
knowledge work
role
34. Assigned status given without consent ( female - daughter - sister ect.)
primary groups
dramaturgy
ascribed status
discretion
35. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
Four purposes of punishment
clique
instrumental leader
sub urbanization
36. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society
socialization
Illegitimate opportunity structures
6 types of societies
three parts of the self
37. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
bridging ties
4 social revolutions and key inventions
White-collar ('occupational') crime
instrumental leader
38. Techniques to salvage a performance
looking glass self
hidden curriculum
face saving work
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
39. In text book
4 social revolutions and key inventions
the particular other
expressive leaders
find nature nurture debate
40. Virtual transitions between status
a right of passage
social control
Self-fulfilling prophecy
surplus
41. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
labeling theory
power
role performance
re-socialization
42. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
primary deviance
primary relationships
role taking
gemeinschaft
43. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
stigma
role taking
identification
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
44. Leaving a role
social aggregate
gemeinschaft
role exit
pastoral society
45. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
anticipatory socialization
social structure
tact
status set
46. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
hidden curriculum
expressive leaders
tact
achieved status
47. Occupation within social structures or institutions
identification
networking
status
economy
48. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
coalititon
status
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
probation
49. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling
probation
status
primary relationships
anticipatory socialization
50. When each person does less when there are more people involved
social loafing
clique
achieved status
mass media