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Sociology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
(Merton's) Strain Theory
stigma
role exit
Retribution
2. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
backstage
crowd
criminal justice system
achieved status
3. Conformity to establish or maintain a relationship with a person or group
Differential Association
identification
social capital
feeling rules
4. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
status inconsistency
reference groups
social networking
in-groups
5. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
feeling rules
role taking
social aggregate
status
6. A group with three members
social loafing
Laissez-faire leadership:
triad
social category
7. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
criminal justice system
looking glass self
Deterrence
charismatic authority
8. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
social differentiation
out-groups
instrumental leader
9. 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
social differentiation
leadership styles
labeling theory
juvenile crime
10. Informational jobs
secondary groups
knowledge work
6 types of societies
Incapacitation
11. Based on pasturing of animals
social capital
instrumental leader
Illegitimate opportunity structures
pastoral society
12. 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
social category
conformity
expressive leaders
Self-fulfilling prophecy
13. Leading by being highly permissive
Laissez-faire leadership:
achieved status
stigma
theories deviance
14. 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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15. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
find nature nurture debate
Differential Association
rational-leagal authority
16. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure
social differentiation
role exit
crowd
secondary groups
17. 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
labeling theory
probation
conformity
surplus
18. The framework (patterns) or society
cultural goal
theory of social contract
democratic leadership
social structure
19. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
economy
role
coalititon
emotion work
20. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
societal transformation
status inconsistency
networking
social differentiation
21. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
a right of passage
leader
theories deviance
Illegitimate opportunity structures
22. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
internalization
in-groups
gender socialization
institutional means
23. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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24. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community
parole
social aggregate
Illegitimate opportunity structures
looking glass self
25. The alignment of some members of a group against others
mass media
coalititon
front stage
social loafing
26. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
knowledge work
gender roles
social control
achieved status
27. 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
Incapacitation
Retribution
the particular other
gemeinschaft
28. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
coalititon
rational-leagal authority
groupthink
29. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
primary deviance
re-socialization
dramaturgy
impression management
30. Social positions earned or obtained
achieved status
White-collar ('occupational') crime
urbanization
4 social revolutions and key inventions
31. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
role strain
social loafing
criminal justice system
urbanization
32. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
restitution
total institutions
status set
ascribed status
33. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
primary groups
the life course
social category
Mead: the self and role taking
34. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Four purposes of punishment
identification
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
social control
35. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
primary deviance
status symbols
5 major group tasks
looking glass self
36. Leaving a role
6 types of societies
4 social revolutions and key inventions
role exit
street crime
37. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
service work
subsistence economy
achieved status
Illegitimate opportunity structures
38. ID - Ego - super ego
societal transformation
anomie
three parts of the self
surplus
39. A system of providing goods and services
authority
economy
the life course
role exit
40. Preparing for future roles
cultural goal
anticipatory socialization
peer group
stereotypes
41. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
secondary relationships
secondary groups
democratic leadership
Conflict theory
42. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
social order
horticultural society
Rehabilitation
corporate crimes
43. A prediction that causes itself to come true
industrial society
feeling rules
leadership styles
Self-fulfilling prophecy
44. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
social category
bonding ties
hunting and gathering
hidden curriculum
45. When a person has two or more competing roles
coalititon
groupthink
role conflict
leader
46. Process that teaches culture to group members
power
a right of passage
feeling rules
socialization
47. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
social loafing
conformity
stigma
Incapacitation
48. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
impression management
bridging ties
knowledge work
parole
49. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
leadership styles
mechanical solidarity
institutional means
Differential Association
50. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
leader
organic solidarity
discretion
secondary groups