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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. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
Rehabilitation
ascribed status
role exit
networking
2. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
role exit
social networking
corporate crimes
agrarian society
3. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
social order
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
social interaction
crime
4. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals
group dynamics
Mead: the self and role taking
subsistence economy
stigma
5. A system of providing goods and services
primary deviance
Deterrence
bridging ties
economy
6. 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')
re-socialization
master status
restitution
Rehabilitation
7. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
the particular other
human nature
find nature nurture debate
Deterrence
8. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
criminal justice system
theories deviance
status
studied non-observance
9. Informational jobs
Conflict theory
social interaction
industrial society
knowledge work
10. Material items that indicate one's status
social loafing
Mead: the self and role taking
status symbols
sub urbanization
11. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
social aggregate
Four purposes of punishment
Rehabilitation
theory of social contract
12. Relationships that cross social barriers
social groups
bridging ties
achieved status
mechanical solidarity
13. The goal of a leader within a group
coalititon
leadership types
street crime
social interaction
14. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
parole
out-groups
traditional authority
deviance
15. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
subsistence economy
stereotypes
criminal justice system
rational-leagal authority
16. Leading by giving orders
authoritarion leadership
crowd
socialization
triad
17. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
hidden curriculum
dyad
role strain
corporate crimes
18. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
human nature
identification
social order
charismatic authority
19. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality
Laissez-faire leadership:
secondary relationships
social loafing
Conflict theory
20. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
primary relationships
group cohesion
gesellschaft
conformity
21. The stages of our life from birth to death
tact
impression management
leader
the life course
22. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
role strain
probation
charismatic authority
secondary groups
23. A type of economy where you live off the land
subsistence economy
(Merton's) Strain Theory
Self-fulfilling prophecy
leadership styles
24. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another
criminal justice system
clique
secondary groups
re-socialization
25. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
Incapacitation
social structure
mechanical solidarity
role
26. Assumptions of people's personality
stereotypes
social structure
gesellschaft
Retribution
27. Large movement of people from country to city
bridging ties
crime
probation
urbanization
28. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
triad
Retribution
three parts of the self
institutional means
29. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
primary groups
social category
social groups
find nature nurture debate
30. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
4 social revolutions and key inventions
White-collar ('occupational') crime
emotion work
instrumental leader
31. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
total institutions
social differentiation
instrumental leader
bridging ties
32. Techniques to salvage a performance
total institutions
face saving work
authoritarion leadership
traditional authority
33. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
role exit
total institutions
stigma
labeling theory
34. Status set that society sees as mismatched
conformity
leadership types
role strain
status inconsistency
35. Committing crime after released from prison
corporate crimes
master status
recidivism
pastoral society
36. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own
social differentiation
internalization
agents of socialization
role performance
37. What the audience sees
social aggregate
front stage
mass media
Differential Association
38. A group with three members
triad
mechanical solidarity
sub urbanization
groupthink
39. All the statuses
dramaturgy
societal transformation
authority
status set
40. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups
social networking
gemeinschaft
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
Rehabilitation
41. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
industrial society
primary groups
dyad
primary deviance
42. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
organic solidarity
three parts of the self
6 types of societies
social aggregate
43. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
White-collar ('occupational') crime
social category
knowledge work
44. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)
a right of passage
ascribed status
charismatic authority
4 social revolutions and key inventions
45. Relationships that cross social barriers
bridging ties
traditional authority
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
restitution
46. 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
master status
conformity
stigma
democratic leadership
47. Relationships that do not provide much support or social cohesion
stereotypes
institutional means
charismatic authority
weak ties
48. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status
role
tact
internalization
urbanization
49. Status set that society sees as mismatched
agrarian society
group cohesion
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
status inconsistency
50. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
in-groups
societal transformation
cultural goal
embarrassment