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Sociology
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1. 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
industrial society
Coercion
organic solidarity
conformity
2. To much stuff
surplus
identification
conformity
power
3. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
discretion
social aggregate
face saving work
recidivism
4. Realization of flaws
organic solidarity
embarrassment
anticipatory socialization
peer group
5. Occupation within social structures or institutions
Differential Association
embarrassment
status
6 types of societies
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')
find nature nurture debate
Rehabilitation
6 types of societies
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
7. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
Four purposes of punishment
social interaction
social groups
tact
8. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well
primary deviance
total institutions
primary groups
dyad
9. Means of communication designed to reach the general population
agents of socialization
mass media
mechanical solidarity
gender socialization
10. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)
social order
role performance
emotion work
social groups
11. Authority based on custom
three parts of the self
egalitarian
traditional authority
gemeinschaft
12. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor
face saving work
clique
gender roles
restitution
13. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
juvenile crime
recidivism
social aggregate
Laissez-faire leadership:
14. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks
theories deviance
group dynamics
role performance
social capital
15. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation
Self-fulfilling prophecy
economy
Four purposes of punishment
Mead: the self and role taking
16. Leading by trying to reach consensus
crime
democratic leadership
total institutions
human nature
17. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation
Self-fulfilling prophecy
peer group
mass media
social revolution
18. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs
social institutions
societal transformation
dramaturgy
criminal justice system
19. Leading by trying to reach consensus
industrial society
democratic leadership
knowledge work
labeling theory
20. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
institutional means
mechanical solidarity
secondary relationships
rational-leagal authority
21. Violations of the law by young people under 18 years old
Five major tasks of groups (and societies)
social interaction
Coercion
juvenile crime
22. Social positions earned or obtained
achieved status
Retribution
role taking
primary deviance
23. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage
Mead: the self and role taking
instrumental leader
Conflict theory
status symbols
24. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')
economy
gesellschaft
egalitarian
Retribution
25. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
stigma
post-industrial society
power
groupthink
26. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment
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27. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when
Illegitimate opportunity structures
discretion
industrial society
agrarian society
28. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior
probation
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
conformity
role conflict
29. Someone who influences other people
surplus
leader
role taking
gemeinschaft
30. A group with three members
backstage
mechanical solidarity
triad
a right of passage
31. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations
agents of socialization
achieved status
corporate crimes
charismatic authority
32. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships
primary deviance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
instrumental leader
gesellschaft
33. Informational jobs
achieved status
social interaction
status symbols
knowledge work
34. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided
dyad
Conflict theory
stereotypes
theory of social contract
35. Large movement of people from country to city
restitution
urbanization
clique
theory of social contract
36. A system of providing goods and services
social loafing
out-groups
economy
theories deviance
37. Relationships that cross social barriers
capital punishment
achieved status
gemeinschaft
bridging ties
38. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.
labeling theory
peer group
human nature
sub urbanization
39. Process that teaches culture to group members
Illegitimate opportunity structures
Four purposes of punishment
socialization
primary relationships
40. Assumptions of people's personality
networking
street crime
social aggregate
stereotypes
41. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
organic solidarity
Incapacitation
status set
master status
42. The violation of norms written into law
crime
triad
secondary relationships
5 major group tasks
43. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong
studied non-observance
status set
group cohesion
(Merton's) Strain Theory
44. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')
status inconsistency
coalititon
leadership styles
Deterrence
45. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others
power
face saving work
the particular other
clique
46. Committing crime after released from prison
Incapacitation
authoritarion leadership
recidivism
internalization
47. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion
gender roles
bonding ties
6 types of societies
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
48. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)
social institutions
charismatic authority
instrumental leader
social interaction
49. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life
rational-leagal authority
industrial society
Illegitimate opportunity structures
studied non-observance
50. Leading by being highly permissive
Laissez-faire leadership:
(Merton's) Strain Theory
stigma
social structure
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