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Charles Horton Cooley would classify a close friendship group as a __________ group.
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A process by which organizations face the same conditions, and ultimately tend to end up like each other, is known as
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CH 5-6 quiz
Sociology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles Horton Cooley would classify a close friendship group as a __________ group. | primary |
| A process by which organizations face the same conditions, and ultimately tend to end up like each other, is known as | isomorphism |
| Building on Stanley Milgram's study on social networks, researchers have found that | approximately half of the people in the world are connected to each other through no more than six steps. |
| When your professor arrives to class and the students go from chatting in a bunch of small clusters to quietly paying attention to the professor at the front of the room, the situation has switched from being __________ to being __________. | multifocal; unifocal |
| Which of the following is true for both dyads and triads, according to Simmel? | Membership is voluntary. |
| A person who tries to drive a wedge between the other two people in a triad is termed by Georg Simmel as | divide and conquer. |
| Georg Simmel describes three basic forms of political relations a third party can assume when joining a dyad. Simmel discussed a third party who | benefits from conflict. |
| The most important difference between primary and secondary groups has to do with | the degree of intimacy or instrumentality that people experience in these groups. |
| What appears to be the main reason for the success of Amish businesses when compared to other US businesses? | The Amish live by prioritizing the community and its social capital rather than rugged individualism. |
| Jennifer goes out at night with a spray can and writes on a stop sign. She successfully vandalizes for the first time. Labeling theorists would call this __________ deviance. | primary |
| Labeling theory focuses on | the social process through which people become deviants. |
| In the United States, the focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation in criminal justice policy has led to an era of what sociologists call | mass incarceration. |
| Trish works as a customer service specialist for a large company that does a lot of business online. For the last few months she has been stealing credit card numbers and selling them on the dark web. This is an example of __ crime. | white-collar |
| Prisons and military boot camps are examples of what Erving Goffman calls | total institutions. |
| Although deviant behavior can be threatening and damaging, paradoxically it also | strengthens society by exercising mechanisms that preserve cohesion. |
| When people in a society form social bonds and relate to each other on a daily basis, the society is said to exhibit | social cohesion. |
| After a student drops out of high school, he becomes labeled a "dropout," and his subsequent actions and choices are explained in terms of this label. Those subsequent actions are called | secondary deviance. |
| According to Émile Durkheim's research, what is the primary reason that Protestants are more likely to commit suicide than Catholics and Jews? | Protestantism is based on the individual, which creates less social integration. |
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