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Sociology
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humanities
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance
social category
anticipatory socialization
(Merton's) Strain Theory
tact
2. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
a right of passage
horticultural society
surplus
expressive leaders
3. 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
role exit
leader
Conflict theory
social revolution
4. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling
find nature nurture debate
social control
social category
primary relationships
5. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
Retribution
deviance
impression management
Four purposes of punishment
6. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
groupthink
authority
status set
gesellschaft
7. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent
anomie
status inconsistency
social aggregate
Rehabilitation
8. People who are roughly the same age and interests
role exit
egalitarian
peer group
subsistence economy
9. What they actually did
Rehabilitation
power
Retribution
role performance
10. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment
face saving work
social control
societal transformation
reference groups
11. Any violation of rules or norms
stigma
gender socialization
deviance
surplus
12. Status set that society sees as mismatched
status inconsistency
institutional means
instrumental leader
mass media
13. Relationships that cross social barriers
hidden curriculum
primary relationships
bridging ties
agents of socialization
14. The death penalty
White-collar ('occupational') crime
out-groups
theories deviance
capital punishment
15. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities
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16. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
compliance
Deterrence
groupthink
networking
17. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
pastoral society
horticultural society
the life course
power
18. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
bridging ties
in-groups
secondary deviance
tact
19. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)
expressive leaders
master status
economy
probation
20. Social positions earned or obtained
charismatic authority
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
achieved status
theory of social contract
21. Leaving a role
status inconsistency
role exit
rational-leagal authority
6 types of societies
22. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
post-industrial society
charismatic authority
discretion
societal transformation
23. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose
dyad
achieved status
in-groups
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
24. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
human nature
Illegitimate opportunity structures
social networking
in-groups
25. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
looking glass self
restitution
societal transformation
leader
26. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.
corporate crimes
post-industrial society
secondary groups
criminal justice system
27. Persons influencing each others behavior
social interaction
traditional authority
societal transformation
secondary deviance
28. The alignment of some members of a group against others
coalititon
theory of social contract
emotion work
criminal justice system
29. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
charismatic authority
coalititon
mechanical solidarity
bonding ties
30. In text book
three parts of the self
deviance
capital punishment
find nature nurture debate
31. A group of just two people
dyad
Deterrence
networking
triad
32. The stages of our life from birth to death
impression management
primary deviance
bridging ties
the life course
33. The goal of a leader within a group
the life course
street crime
leadership types
social control
34. Ways in which people express their leadership
social interaction
juvenile crime
leadership styles
the life course
35. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
front stage
dramaturgy
social revolution
social structure
36. A type of economy where you live off the land
mass media
internalization
subsistence economy
find nature nurture debate
37. 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
out-groups
Four purposes of punishment
labeling theory
hunting and gathering
38. 'audience' ignores flawed performances
the life course
studied non-observance
re-socialization
traditional authority
39. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'
power
in-groups
tact
dramaturgy
40. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
horticultural society
social capital
Mead: the self and role taking
social interaction
41. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life
primary groups
ascribed status
hidden curriculum
studied non-observance
42. When a person has two or more competing roles
mass media
role conflict
societal transformation
socialization
43. Techniques to salvage a performance
impression management
face saving work
hidden curriculum
societal transformation
44. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
parole
rational-leagal authority
corporate crimes
triad
45. Preparing for future roles
Laissez-faire leadership:
labeling theory
coalititon
anticipatory socialization
46. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
re-socialization
dramaturgy
theory of social contract
Deterrence
47. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances
juvenile crime
backstage
authoritarion leadership
dyad
48. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them
parole
instrumental leader
authority
stereotypes
49. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
leader
primary groups
social capital
horticultural society
50. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
social revolution
group cohesion
capital punishment
social aggregate