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Sociology
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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. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling
primary relationships
master status
the life course
find nature nurture debate
2. A system of providing goods and services
leadership types
identification
traditional authority
economy
3. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
industrial society
primary relationships
social category
human nature
4. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
bridging ties
out-groups
leader
the life course
5. Assumptions of people's personality
role strain
stereotypes
three parts of the self
groupthink
6. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
bridging ties
discretion
emotion work
three parts of the self
7. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
a right of passage
secondary groups
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
Rehabilitation
8. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
authority
emotion work
clique
emotion work
9. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
the life course
impression management
internalization
anomie
10. Re-socializing a criminal so that he or she no longer wants to do crime - but can live a non-criminal life ('Go and sin no more')
Rehabilitation
social loafing
theory of social contract
economy
11. People who are roughly the same age and interests
looking glass self
peer group
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
bridging ties
12. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
recidivism
gesellschaft
authority
13. A group of just two people
dyad
social aggregate
stereotypes
agents of socialization
14. In text book
conformity
find nature nurture debate
capital punishment
authoritarion leadership
15. Someone who influences other people
leader
the life course
reference groups
democratic leadership
16. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
street crime
social category
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
embarrassment
17. ID - Ego - super ego
three parts of the self
expressive leaders
identification
gesellschaft
18. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
stigma
in-groups
gender socialization
social capital
19. A group with three members
triad
social capital
Rehabilitation
Incapacitation
20. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)
egalitarian
stigma
capital punishment
leadership types
21. Process that teaches culture to group members
conformity
reference groups
crime
socialization
22. When a person has two or more competing roles
probation
social differentiation
status symbols
role conflict
23. 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
out-groups
labeling theory
looking glass self
in-groups
24. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
post-industrial society
status inconsistency
gender roles
Coercion
25. Preparing for future roles
anticipatory socialization
crowd
Four purposes of punishment
Illegitimate opportunity structures
26. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations
social institutions
social category
agents of socialization
ascribed status
27. A) The elite group members make up the laws b) The elite group members structure society so that they have more opportunities than others c) Discretion benefits the elite in all parts of the criminal justice system d) The oppressed must organize to r
probation
group dynamics
looking glass self
Conflict theory
28. Large movement of people from country to city
urbanization
industrial society
Rehabilitation
role taking
29. A group of just two people
corporate crimes
dyad
Differential Association
role conflict
30. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
role exit
Incapacitation
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
gesellschaft
31. The goal of a leader within a group
dramaturgy
leadership types
probation
the life course
32. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
triad
group dynamics
bridging ties
5 major group tasks
33. Based on information services and high technology
subsistence economy
social groups
social groups
post-industrial society
34. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
agents of socialization
status
status inconsistency
secondary relationships
35. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
hunting and gathering
power
social control
gender roles
36. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
authoritarion leadership
gesellschaft
4 social revolutions and key inventions
criminal justice system
37. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
social category
role
White-collar ('occupational') crime
secondary deviance
38. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
conformity
social networking
mass media
in-groups
39. Based on pasturing of animals
feeling rules
pastoral society
authority
mass media
40. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel
post-industrial society
industrial society
out-groups
total institutions
41. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
leadership types
Four purposes of punishment
groupthink
Retribution
42. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
Illegitimate opportunity structures
bridging ties
master status
reference groups
43. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
group dynamics
expressive leaders
role exit
the life course
44. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
gesellschaft
gender roles
tact
agrarian society
45. Leaving a role
secondary relationships
mechanical solidarity
role exit
social institutions
46. Re-socializing a criminal so that he or she no longer wants to do crime - but can live a non-criminal life ('Go and sin no more')
Rehabilitation
impression management
social control
restitution
47. Committing crime after released from prison
recidivism
tact
authoritarion leadership
networking
48. Leading by being highly permissive
traditional authority
primary deviance
Laissez-faire leadership:
recidivism
49. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
egalitarian
feeling rules
mechanical solidarity
role conflict
50. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
internalization
labeling theory
crime
tact