Sociology Test 2

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Test 2
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Quiz by ashleigh nichole, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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A [blank_start]reference group[blank_end] is a social group that serves as a point of reference for people making evaluations or decisions.
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  • reference group

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[blank_start]Formal Organizations[blank_end] are large, secondary groups that are organized to achieve goals efficiently.
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  • Formal Organizations

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Three aspects of a group:
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  • The individuals in a group interact and communicate with one another
  • they share norms and goals
  • they take an awareness that they are a "we",a distinct social unit.
  • They each take a share in the work

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[blank_start]Aggegate[blank_end] is made up of individuals who temporarily share the same physical space but do not have a sense of belonging together.
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  • Aggegate

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[blank_start]Iron Law of oligarchy[blank_end] refers to the way organisation come to be dominated by a small, self-perpetvating elite.
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  • Iron Law of oligarchy

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Who coined the term the iron law of oligarchy?
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  • Robert Michels
  • Weber
  • Marx
  • Feud

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[blank_start]Group Conformity[blank_end] is how groups influence the behavior of their members.
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  • Group Conformity

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Expressive Leaders are those who are less likely to be recognized as leaders buy help with the groups moral. Instrumental leaders are those who try to keep the group moving toward it's goals.
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  • True
  • False

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George Simnel researched [blank_start]group size[blank_end]
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  • group size

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[blank_start]Irving Jenis[blank_end] coined the term "group think"
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  • Irving Jenis

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[blank_start]Social Stratification[blank_end] refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy.
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  • Social Stratification

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[blank_start]Social Class[blank_end] can be defined as a large group of people who rank close to each other in wealth, power, and prestige.
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  • Social Class

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[blank_start]Intergenerational[blank_end] mobility is the change that family members make in their social class form one generation to the next.
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  • Intergenerational

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[blank_start]Intragenerational[blank_end] Mobility is class change within one generation.
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  • Intragenerational

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[blank_start]Structuaral[blank_end] Mobility involves social changes that affect large numbers of people.
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  • Structuaral

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[blank_start]Exchange[blank_end] Mobility refers to the movement of people up and down the social class system, where, on balance, the system remains the same.
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  • Exchange

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[blank_start]Estate system[blank_end] is the ownership of property and the exercise of power is monopolized by an elite who have total control over society resources.
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  • Estate system

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[blank_start]Caste System[blank_end] amounts to social stratification based on ascription or birth.
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  • Caste System

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[blank_start]class system[blank_end] is form of social stratification based primary on the possession of money or material possessions. (Based on achieved goals)
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  • class system

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[blank_start]Future Shock[blank_end] is the confusion resulting from rapid scientific and technological changes that unravel our traditional values and beliefs.
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  • Future Shock

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[blank_start]Reflection Theory[blank_end] is the idea that culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere; a screen onto which the film of the underlying reality or social structures is projected.
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  • Reflection Theory

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The [blank_start]Theory of Colonalism[blank_end] focuses on how nations that industrialized first got the jump on the rest of the world.
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  • Theory of Colonalism

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[blank_start]Modernization Theory[blank_end] is a model of economic and social development that global inequality in terms of technological and cultural differences among nations.
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  • Modernization Theory

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[blank_start]Dependency Theory[blank_end] is a model of economic and social development that explains global inequality in terms of the historical explanation of poor societies by rich ones.
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  • Dependency Theory

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[blank_start]Hegemony[blank_end] is a condition by which a dominant group uses its power to elicit the voluntary "consent" of the masses.
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  • Hegemony

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[blank_start]Sociolization[blank_end] is the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture; it is the process by which we learn the ways of our society.
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  • Sociolization

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For who is the self a dimension of personality composed of an individually self-awareness and self- image that emerges from social experience?
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  • George H. Mead
  • Karl Marx
  • Max Weber
  • None of these

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[blank_start]object relations theory[blank_end] is social relationships experienced by children determine adult personalities.
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  • object relations theory

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[blank_start]Social learning theory[blank_end] is formative on of identity is a learned response from social stimuli.
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  • Social learning theory

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[blank_start]Anticipatory socialization[blank_end] refers to the process of social learning directed toward gaining a desired position and commonly occurs among peers.
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  • Anticipatory socialization

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Who was the first to coin the term total institution?
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  • Erving Goffman
  • Weber
  • Marx
  • richard

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[blank_start]Total institution[blank_end] is a place cut off from the rest of society and is under almost total control of agents who work for the insinuations.
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  • Total institution

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The [blank_start]social construction of reality[blank_end] is the process by which individuals creatively shape reality through social reaction.
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  • social construction of reality

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Ascribed statuses are positions an individual wither inherits at birth or receives involuntary later in life. Achieved statuses are positions that are earned, accomplished, or involve at least some effort or activity on the individuals part.
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  • True
  • False

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[blank_start]status inconsistency[blank_end] exists where the statuses occupied by a person bring with them significantly different amounts of prestige, thus differing expectations.
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  • status inconsistency

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Role conflict refers to incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single statues. Role strain results when there is a conflict among roles corresponding to two or more different statues.
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  • True
  • False

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[blank_start]Social Exchange model[blank_end] of interaction holds that our interactions are determined by the rewards and punishments that we receive from others.
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  • Social Exchange model

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[blank_start]Game Theory[blank_end] is a mathematical and economic theory that predicts human interaction has the characteristics of a game.
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  • Game Theory

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[blank_start]Dramaturgy[blank_end] is an analysis of how we present ourselves in everyday life.
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  • Dramaturgy

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[blank_start]Presentation of Self[blank_end] is an effort of an individual to create specific impressions in the minds of others.
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  • Presentation of Self

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[blank_start]Impression management[blank_end] is the process to manage the impressions that others have of her or him.
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  • Impression management

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[blank_start]Role Performance[blank_end] is the particular emphasis or interpretation that an individual gives a role he/she is fulfilling.
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  • Role Performance

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[blank_start]Tact[blank_end] involves helping someone save fave following a bad performance.
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  • Tact

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[blank_start]Paralingustic communication[blank_end] is the component of communication that is conveyed by the pitch and loudness of one's voice.
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  • Paralingustic communication

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[blank_start]Proxemic communication[blank_end] the meaning that is conveyed by the amount of space between individuals.
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  • Proxemic communication

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[blank_start]Ethnomethodology[blank_end] involves the discovery of rules concerning our views of the world and how people ought to act.
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  • Ethnomethodology

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[blank_start]Harold Garfinkel[blank_end] founded the ethnomethodological approach.
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  • Harold Garfinkel
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