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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. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority
social order
clique
rational-leagal authority
knowledge work
2. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success
institutional means
a right of passage
role taking
social revolution
3. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them
status inconsistency
Coercion
White-collar ('occupational') crime
gender socialization
4. A type of economy where you live off the land
juvenile crime
subsistence economy
bridging ties
post-industrial society
5. People who are roughly the same age and interests
bonding ties
deviance
social networking
peer group
6. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image
primary deviance
societal transformation
economy
group cohesion
7. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions
social control
institutional means
gemeinschaft
emotion work
8. Occupation within social structures or institutions
dyad
status
deviance
out-groups
9. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture
embarrassment
Differential Association
Retribution
social aggregate
10. When a person has two or more competing roles
corporate crimes
service work
social revolution
role conflict
11. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls
gender roles
leadership styles
the life course
secondary deviance
12. Leading by being highly permissive
secondary deviance
Laissez-faire leadership:
peer group
re-socialization
13. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation
feeling rules
Conflict theory
social order
leadership types
14. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.
service work
mass media
hidden curriculum
street crime
15. Based on information services and high technology
post-industrial society
networking
capital punishment
theory of social contract
16. Ways in which people express their leadership
social order
4 social revolutions and key inventions
leadership styles
Coercion
17. Leading by being highly permissive
street crime
Laissez-faire leadership:
three parts of the self
achieved status
18. Relationships that cross social barriers
looking glass self
Deterrence
bridging ties
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
19. The important expectations of a particular person that a child wishes to please the generalized other - The expectations of a society taken into account when shaping their own behavior
the particular other
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
White-collar ('occupational') crime
Conflict theory
20. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family
Conflict theory
networking
mechanical solidarity
secondary deviance
21. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.
sub urbanization
anticipatory socialization
status
role performance
22. 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
social networking
agrarian society
status
conformity
23. Group decisions that are made without objective thought
group cohesion
secondary groups
secondary groups
groupthink
24. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones
emotion work
re-socialization
peer group
social structure
25. People who are roughly the same age and interests
social structure
Self-fulfilling prophecy
peer group
Illegitimate opportunity structures
26. Assumptions of people's personality
Illegitimate opportunity structures
Understand and recognize Solomon Asch's experiment on group conformity
stereotypes
cultural goal
27. To much stuff
5 major group tasks
corporate crimes
6 types of societies
surplus
28. Authority based on custom
role taking
social category
economy
traditional authority
29. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
cultural goal
identification
leadership types
30. Ways in which people express their leadership
out-groups
leadership styles
mechanical solidarity
gender roles
31. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival
social loafing
role
hunting and gathering
crime
32. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'
power
secondary deviance
Retribution
in-groups
33. 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')
recidivism
authoritarion leadership
Rehabilitation
out-groups
34. A group with three members
triad
role
gesellschaft
gemeinschaft
35. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact
labeling theory
crowd
institutional means
triad
36. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another
internalization
Mead: the self and role taking
social category
status inconsistency
37. Using one's social networks for some form of gain
crime
networking
human nature
deviance
38. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.
anticipatory socialization
democratic leadership
master status
secondary deviance
39. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another
institutional means
social groups
probation
surplus
40. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships
social aggregate
status symbols
status inconsistency
Differential Association
41. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
5 major group tasks
bridging ties
ascribed status
role exit
42. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools
find nature nurture debate
restitution
horticultural society
6 types of societies
43. Techniques to salvage a performance
achieved status
face saving work
labeling theory
master status
44. All the statuses
mass media
status set
subsistence economy
conformity
45. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward
dyad
mass media
in-groups
group cohesion
46. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose
5 major group tasks
networking
Rehabilitation
discretion
47. The violation of norms written into law
mass media
achieved status
agents of socialization
crime
48. Leaving a role
sub urbanization
economy
role exit
peer group
49. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused
role taking
The effect of group size: As the group grows larger
knowledge work
5 major group tasks
50. Virtual transitions between status
capital punishment
service work
societal transformation
a right of passage