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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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1. A group with three members
economy
triad
role exit
secondary groups
2. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Four purposes of punishment
anticipatory socialization
horticultural society
primary deviance
3. Leading by giving orders
feeling rules
face saving work
authoritarion leadership
crowd
4. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
human nature
rational-leagal authority
urbanization
internalization
5. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
status symbols
socialization
hunting and gathering
total institutions
6. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
institutional means
probation
role
gender socialization
7. Leading by trying to reach consensus
internalization
egalitarian
democratic leadership
total institutions
8. Authority based on custom
instrumental leader
theories deviance
traditional authority
pastoral society
9. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
Retribution
leadership styles
5 major group tasks
Four purposes of punishment
10. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
social category
achieved status
tact
social institutions
11. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
authority
role strain
organic solidarity
primary deviance
12. To much stuff
surplus
leader
feeling rules
the particular other
13. 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')
theories deviance
Rehabilitation
5 major group tasks
secondary relationships
14. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
clique
social control
secondary relationships
sub urbanization
15. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
restitution
Four purposes of punishment
backstage
social order
16. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
anomie
Coercion
hunting and gathering
role strain
17. Leaving a role
Conflict theory
role exit
5 major group tasks
(Merton's) Strain Theory
18. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
human nature
mass media
networking
social revolution
19. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
achieved status
White-collar ('occupational') crime
feeling rules
Illegitimate opportunity structures
20. ID - Ego - super ego
agrarian society
group dynamics
networking
three parts of the self
21. Leading by being highly permissive
social loafing
role conflict
total institutions
Laissez-faire leadership:
22. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
Conflict theory
role conflict
achieved status
anomie
23. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
role performance
authority
Mead: the self and role taking
economy
24. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
post-industrial society
gemeinschaft
mass media
role
25. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role
social differentiation
networking
role strain
social aggregate
26. Based on pasturing of animals
socialization
pastoral society
social loafing
power
27. A group with three members
anomie
primary groups
triad
bridging ties
28. Leading by being highly permissive
Laissez-faire leadership:
authority
labeling theory
mass media
29. People who are roughly the same age and interests
service work
clique
peer group
discretion
30. The goal of a leader within a group
master status
leadership types
reference groups
looking glass self
31. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
expressive leaders
social aggregate
industrial society
gender roles
32. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
expressive leaders
social order
discretion
identification
33. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
sub urbanization
social order
restitution
social differentiation
34. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance
social differentiation
groupthink
total institutions
impression management
35. Preparing for future roles
total institutions
instrumental leader
anticipatory socialization
find nature nurture debate
36. A type of economy where you live off the land
deviance
social interaction
subsistence economy
Incapacitation
37. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
Self-fulfilling prophecy
leader
social revolution
social aggregate
38. The death penalty
social category
Four purposes of punishment
social revolution
capital punishment
39. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
social groups
horticultural society
4 social revolutions and key inventions
status
40. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
looking glass self
triad
a right of passage
role conflict
41. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
human nature
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
juvenile crime
secondary relationships
42. All the statuses
studied non-observance
status set
role strain
theory of social contract
43. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
social institutions
in-groups
street crime
internalization
44. Leading by giving orders
role
authoritarion leadership
ascribed status
social interaction
45. The framework (patterns) or society
social structure
deviance
looking glass self
4 social revolutions and key inventions
46. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling
traditional authority
Laissez-faire leadership:
stereotypes
primary relationships
47. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
Deterrence
role
bonding ties
organic solidarity
48. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'
corporate crimes
secondary deviance
subsistence economy
restitution
49. Assumptions of people's personality
stereotypes
out-groups
industrial society
capital punishment
50. Virtual transitions between status
leadership types
social differentiation
a right of passage
theory of social contract