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Sociology
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humanities
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The framework (patterns) or society
gemeinschaft
deviance
social networking
social structure
2. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us
looking glass self
charismatic authority
surplus
three parts of the self
3. What they actually did
theories deviance
role performance
crime
peer group
4. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
hidden curriculum
weak ties
service work
White-collar ('occupational') crime
5. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
primary deviance
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
emotion work
Illegitimate opportunity structures
6. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
social interaction
leadership types
the particular other
studied non-observance
7. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities
status inconsistency
feeling rules
street crime
social interaction
8. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
sub urbanization
social control
Laissez-faire leadership:
the particular other
9. Assumptions of people's personality
agents of socialization
stereotypes
total institutions
egalitarian
10. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships
leadership types
social capital
gemeinschaft
secondary groups
11. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another
social groups
stigma
5 major group tasks
organic solidarity
12. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)
role strain
agents of socialization
total institutions
labeling theory
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')
Rehabilitation
surplus
Coercion
gemeinschaft
14. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
secondary groups
post-industrial society
corporate crimes
anticipatory socialization
15. In text book
Four purposes of punishment
total institutions
find nature nurture debate
out-groups
16. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
role
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
anomie
secondary relationships
17. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
Coercion
tact
social order
primary groups
18. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward
out-groups
juvenile crime
organic solidarity
internalization
19. Someone who influences other people
out-groups
leader
social control
impression management
20. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
charismatic authority
stereotypes
Laissez-faire leadership:
role strain
21. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
(Merton's) Strain Theory
social institutions
social revolution
democratic leadership
22. To put yourself in someone else's shoes
crime
role taking
hunting and gathering
secondary deviance
23. Techniques to salvage a performance
social differentiation
face saving work
street crime
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
24. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
Retribution
social institutions
bonding ties
rational-leagal authority
25. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
social category
out-groups
gesellschaft
secondary groups
26. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
Incapacitation
group cohesion
theories deviance
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
27. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
weak ties
total institutions
4 social revolutions and key inventions
discretion
28. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
in-groups
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
agents of socialization
front stage
29. The people who join together to reach a goal
secondary groups
human nature
role exit
identification
30. Ways in which people express their leadership
crime
traditional authority
leadership styles
instrumental leader
31. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
hunting and gathering
clique
social groups
surplus
32. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
reference groups
the particular other
secondary relationships
post-industrial society
33. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
studied non-observance
Four purposes of punishment
role conflict
peer group
34. 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
conformity
primary groups
traditional authority
social groups
35. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity
compliance
leadership styles
stigma
authoritarion leadership
36. Conformity to establish or maintain a relationship with a person or group
social loafing
identification
economy
(Merton's) Strain Theory
37. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
organic solidarity
master status
three parts of the self
conformity
38. Leading by trying to reach consensus
three parts of the self
democratic leadership
recidivism
find nature nurture debate
39. The stages of our life from birth to death
role exit
Retribution
a right of passage
the life course
40. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
organic solidarity
mechanical solidarity
economy
charismatic authority
41. Realization of flaws
instrumental leader
primary deviance
stigma
embarrassment
42. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory
secondary deviance
theories deviance
mass media
4 social revolutions and key inventions
43. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
Rehabilitation
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
corporate crimes
societal transformation
44. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
authoritarion leadership
secondary groups
sub urbanization
45. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself
economy
reference groups
groupthink
role conflict
46. When each person does less when there are more people involved
internalization
role exit
stigma
social loafing
47. People who are roughly the same age and interests
peer group
discretion
status inconsistency
horticultural society
48. Informational jobs
knowledge work
secondary groups
three parts of the self
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
49. Material items that indicate one's status
secondary relationships
deviance
status symbols
tact
50. Someone who influences other people
5 major group tasks
Laissez-faire leadership:
leader
social interaction
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