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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The stages of our life from birth to death
the life course
mechanical solidarity
social groups
charismatic authority
2. A group of just two people
authoritarion leadership
backstage
social control
dyad
3. All the statuses
emotion work
status set
Differential Association
mass media
4. 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 revolution
labeling theory
egalitarian
group dynamics
5. Realization of flaws
embarrassment
gender socialization
networking
institutional means
6. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
theory of social contract
tact
conformity
hunting and gathering
7. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
institutional means
anomie
ascribed status
secondary relationships
8. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
criminal justice system
gesellschaft
social aggregate
social groups
9. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
5 major group tasks
subsistence economy
social aggregate
5 major group tasks
10. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
5 major group tasks
rational-leagal authority
group cohesion
face saving work
11. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
5 major group tasks
emotion work
the life course
criminal justice system
12. 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
deviance
Conflict theory
Incapacitation
social groups
13. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
status inconsistency
social loafing
social institutions
dyad
14. A system of providing goods and services
primary groups
social structure
economy
master status
15. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution
dyad
Differential Association
social revolution
Incapacitation
16. All the statuses
social institutions
Coercion
status set
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
17. 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')
labeling theory
social structure
leadership styles
Rehabilitation
18. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
crime
corporate crimes
theory of social contract
looking glass self
19. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
leader
status
out-groups
internalization
20. Techniques to salvage a performance
primary deviance
democratic leadership
Retribution
face saving work
21. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
human nature
Mead: the self and role taking
expressive leaders
theories deviance
22. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
Laissez-faire leadership:
mechanical solidarity
networking
crime
23. Committing crime after released from prison
role conflict
reference groups
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
recidivism
24. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
juvenile crime
Differential Association
status inconsistency
gesellschaft
25. Leading by giving orders
Retribution
authoritarion leadership
street crime
knowledge work
26. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
horticultural society
master status
expressive leaders
probation
27. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
criminal justice system
expressive leaders
networking
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
28. When a person has two or more competing roles
role conflict
looking glass self
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
anticipatory socialization
29. Informational jobs
master status
knowledge work
reference groups
gemeinschaft
30. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
re-socialization
front stage
street crime
corporate crimes
31. The framework (patterns) or society
authority
social structure
social order
probation
32. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
clique
looking glass self
dyad
ascribed status
33. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
social order
social networking
in-groups
34. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
probation
secondary groups
reference groups
conformity
35. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
Deterrence
role taking
secondary groups
mechanical solidarity
36. What they actually did
role performance
groupthink
in-groups
restitution
37. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
(Merton's) Strain Theory
gemeinschaft
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
coalititon
38. Techniques to salvage a performance
face saving work
social control
internalization
surplus
39. Persons influencing each others behavior
find nature nurture debate
Coercion
corporate crimes
social interaction
40. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
gemeinschaft
a right of passage
social networking
street crime
41. People who are roughly the same age and interests
corporate crimes
in-groups
Self-fulfilling prophecy
peer group
42. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
feeling rules
Coercion
deviance
status set
43. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
knowledge work
anticipatory socialization
impression management
role
44. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
horticultural society
rational-leagal authority
dyad
economy
45. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
service work
social networking
gemeinschaft
reference groups
46. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
social order
social order
gemeinschaft
stigma
47. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
capital punishment
primary deviance
cultural goal
networking
48. Assumptions of people's personality
stereotypes
Coercion
post-industrial society
leader
49. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
studied non-observance
secondary groups
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
restitution
50. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
theories deviance
4 social revolutions and key inventions
backstage
social structure