When some group members align themselves against others in the group:
Reference group standards in a diverse society are often contradictory
Expectations, or rules of behavior, that develop out of a group's...
The framework of a society that was already laid out before you were...
Norms that are not strictly enforced are
Match the following
Networks tend to limit inequalities by giving more people access to...
In the case of Isabelle, the debate about _____ became important again
In the study of Chambliss, the Saints and the Roughnecks both turned...
Nonmaterial culture includes beliefs, values, gestures, and machines
Larger groups are more ______ than small groups
A student cheating on a test is engaging in a form of deviance called...
Various occupational groups form ____
Universities are examples of bureaucracies
______ are a series of interrelated values that together form a larger...
An expressive leader
In a bureaucracy, each worker is a replaceable unit
_________ occurs when new goals are adopted by an organization to...
Even in a society of ___________, Durkheim argued, deviance is...
When values clash in a society, sociologists refer to this as
According to strain theory, who gives up pursuit of success by abusing...
In a series of experiments with rhesus monkeys, the researchers Harlow...
Weber's concept of "rationalization" closely resembles...
Sociologists call the norms and values that people actually follow...
The functionalist perspective states that deviance contributes to...
The phrase ____________ refers to the increasing influence of...
The groups we use as a standard to evaluate ourselves are:
According to sociologists, differences among individuals in behavior...
All of the following are styles of leadership except:
Charles H. Cooley coined the term ____________ to describe the process...
Steve lives in a neighborhood with high crime rates and poor schools....
Clusters, or internal factions, within a large group are known as
The process in which cultures become similar to one another is
Each of us is actively involved in the construction of the:
According to strain theory, some people experience greater pressures...
The ability to understand how the group as a whole feels and thinks is...
A groups, language, beliefs, values, and behaviors is known as
Studies of both isolated and institutionalized children demonstrate...
_______ is a feeling of powerlessness and normlessness; the experience...
________ is the term used to describe someone, such as a parent and/or...
Illegitimate opportunity structures are readily available in urban...
Social class in based on all of the following except:
You are a student, a friend, a son or a daughter, a sister or a...
White collar crime is not as costly as street crime
The NATO organization exhibits goal displacement
Family, neighbors, teachers, and co-workers are all examples of a...
Functionalists and conflict theorists agree that the criminal...
Income, education, and occupational prestige indicate ____________
All of the following are characteristics of bureaucracy, except:
Studies of monkeys suggest that animals do not react in similar ways...
Socialization is the process by which we learn the ways of society, or...
The illegitimate opportunity structures theory is based on:
Freud's term for a balancing force between the inborn drives for...
A ______________ is one that cuts across the other statuses you hold
Paul Ekman found that everyone in the world experiences six basic:
According to Cooley, the development of self is essentially completed...
Mead thought that play is crucial to the development of the self
All of the following are correct statements regarding status symbols,...
Bureaucracies are likely to disappear as our dominant form of social...
You have a Sociology exam to take tomorrow, but you also need to visit...
Goal displacement occurs when:
According to Mead, from the ages of about three to six, children can...
Crimes committed by high-status people in the course of their...
The I is the self as subject
Subcultures remain compatible with the dominant culture while...
Piaget used the term "operational" to mean the ability to...
When performances do not go off as planned, we often have to engage in...
Sociologists use the term _______ to refer to how groups influence us...
Usually, the significant others who first teach us our part in the...
A self-employed auto mechanic is likely to feel alienation from his or...
Sears defrauded the poor of more than $100 million. This is an example...
As a ___________ grows larger, it becomes more stable, but its...
The study of how people use commonsense understandings to get through...
People and groups that influence our self-concept, emotions,...
The corporate culture produces self-fulfilling prophecies
According to Travis Hirschi, what affects the effectiveness of our...
Core values may contradict one another
Whereas macrosociology stresses the importance of social structure,...
Corporations and federal bureaucracies often misuse the idea of...
The idea that bureaucracies, with their rules, regulations, and...
Being absorbed into the dominant culture is an example of cultural...
An individual who tries to keep the group moving toward its goals is...
The democratic leadership style is appropriate for all situations
The death penalty is not administered evenly in the United States
People who have something in common and who believe that what they...
In contemporary America, which of the following status sets would very...
The classification of hate crime fits all crimes involving murder
Conflict theory and functionalism both focus on the macrosociological...
___________is a narrowing of thought by a group of people, which...
According to the text, a college student cheating on an exam and a...
Social inequality increases as society evolves from the hunting/...
The acknowledged leader of a group is known as:
Sociologists use the term ____ to refer to any violation of a norm
One of the main findings of the sociologist Kohn was that...
Democratic leadership is generally considered most effective, but this...
Which one of the following is a status inconsistency?
Expressions of disapproval of deviance are called __________sanctions
An attempt to remake the self by stripping away the individual's...
Stages, from birth to death, are called
______ work together to meet universal needs
As a small group grows larger, its intensity decreases and its...
Athletes who cheat by taking steroids practice
Small groups
The stages that we all go through in life are called the:
A society that is egalitarian, small, and nomadic is a:
Master statuses can be ascribed or achieved statuses
Social control included both formal and informal means to enforcing...
The life course stage between childhood and adulthood is
Which of the following has been found to be the best leadership style?
Sociologists stress that people ________ deviance
As societies get larger, their ___________ becomes more specialized
Belonging to a group means that we yield to others the right to make...
The means that each society develops to meet its needs are:
In pre-industrial societies, old age was thought to begin around age...
The smallest possible group is a triad
Which racial/ethic group is disproportionately represented among the...
Secondary groups
Which of the following is/are example(s) of institutionalized...
Dyads
Most negative sanctions are:
Researchers have found that delinquents are more likely to come from...
A large introductory sociology class is an example of
All of the following are responses to anomie as identified by Robert...
The Milgram experiment demonstrates
When we examine influences of religion, approximately how many...
Why is deviance often seen as threating?
Hirschi noted that the stronger our bonds are with society, the more...
Cultural leveling inevitably increases cultural distinctiveness
A national institute of child health and human development study on...
The biotech society is centered on the application of genetic...
All sanctions are negative
The material objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their...
Accorsing to Merton, people who experience strain, are likely to feel...
Who is disproportionately at risk of being put to death under the...
Ferdinand Tonnies used the term ______ to refer to societies dominated...
_____ is the conflict one feels within a role
A smile or an award are examples of:
Sociologists search for explanations of deviance among factors outside...
The societies in which groups first developed permanent settlements...
For many aging people, the most comfortable period in their lives is:
An aggregate consists of people who temporarily share the same...
The technique of psychoanalysis was founded by Piaget and Freud...
______ is the tendency to use our own group's way of doing things...
The Industrial Revolution is associated with the invention of the:
__________ crime refers to crimes that people of respectable and high...
Freud assumed that to be male is normal
According to differential association theory, the source of deviant...
A major change in the nature of crime is the growing number of...
Each culture has norms of emotion that demand conformity
Microsociologists examine face-to-face interaction
When two or more people collaborate to manage impressions jointly,...
Our social mirror sets up effective controls over our behavior
Voluntary associations are a special type of primary group
Hester Prynne's scarlet letter "A" is an example of
Role conflict is a conflict that someone feels within a role
From the cases of institutionalized children, it is possible to...
Studied nonobservance is a form of face-saving
Symbolic interactionists stress that we are mere pawns in the hands of...
The Adler study found that athletic ability helped make boys popular
Group-wise, one of the common ways to reduce a feeling of alienation...
A ______crime is a crime that is motivated by bias against...
In the US, the _______ rate---the percentage of former prisoners who...
As organizations grow larger they become more democratic
Secondary groups tend to break down into:
A __________ group is characterized by more anonymous, formal, and...
Goffman called the techniques that we use to salvage a performance...
In American culture, if a person intentionally kills another person,...
Anticipatory socialization involves learning to play a role before...
A person, who was married but is now divorced and single will...
Symbolic interactionists assume that reality has an objective...
Differential association theory is based on the:
Trying to understand a culture on its own terms is the concept of...
The tendency for organizations to be dominated by a small,...
________ refers to the tendency of formal organizations to be...
Outlaw bikers hold the conventional world in contempt and are proud of...
In American culture, eating human flesh is a violation of a(an):
Tensions between in- and out- groups disappear in socially diverse...
The social construction of reality involves subjective interpretation
Industrialization brought with it a delay in the onset of old age
As societies get larger, their ______ becomes more specialized
___ is a system of symbols that can be combined in an infinite number...
On which of the following does microsociology focus?
_________ provides a sense of identification or belonging while...
Subcultures:
________ places the focus on broad features of society.
According to differential association theory, someone becomes a...
Sociologists refer to groups that provide a sense of identification or...
The medicalization of deviance refers to
__________ is what people do when they are in the presence of one...
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis indicates that our _____ determines our...
Organic solidarity refers to a society:
If a sociologist decided to research the perceptions that different...
Thomas Szasz argued that mental illness are simply ________ behaviors
_________ groups are the groups we use as standards to evaluate...
Core values do not change without meeting strong resistance
Culture Includes:
The disorientation people experience when coming into contact with a...
The Ku Klux Klan is a:
Emerging technologies that have significant impact on social life are...
Language allows human experience to be cumulative