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Sociology QA#2 Review 2012Mrs. Furbush

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Judging others in terms of one's own standards is called   Ethnocentrism  
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Group that is made up of people who are emotionally close, know one another well, and seek out each others' company   Primary Group  
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Teachers and Students--Primary or Secondary Relationship?   Secondary Relationship  
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How can Deviance benefit society?   Cause Needed Social Change  
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What are some costs of deviance?   It can cause nonconforming behavior in others, it is expensive, it erodes trust  
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This type of deviances refers to deviance as a lifestyle and personal identity   Secondary Deviance  
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What is Deterrence?   Approach to crime control that discourages criminal acts by the threat of punishment  
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What are the four types of crime control?   Retribution, Deterrence, Incarceration, Rehabilitation  
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What is a social class?   A group in the population that holds similar amounts of the resources and share values, norms, and an identifiable lifestyle  
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A widely held negative attitude toward a group and its members is called   Prejudice  
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Acting on a prejudice is called   Discrimination  
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Reference Group   Group whose norms and values are used to guide behavior and with whom a person identifies  
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Three characteristics of Primary Groups are   Small Size, Face-to-face contact, & Continuous Contact  
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Primary or Secondary Group? Our Sociology class   Secondary  
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Primary or Secondary? A Family   Primary  
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Cooperation   Interaction in which group members work together to reach a goal  
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Which historical event prompted Jane Elliot to conduct her famous blue eyed/brown eyed experiment?   Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  
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In the Milgram experiment, which group gave the shocks?   Teacher  
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In this experiment, the people took on the roles of prisoners and prison guards   Stanford Experiment  
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What happened in the Asche Experiment?   People changed their answers to conform to the group  
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Which group is most likely to be sentenced to the Death penalty?   Blacks  
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The goal of this punishment is to resocialize criminals   Rehabilitation  
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What is Conformity?   Behavior that matches society's expectations or norms  
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Stealing gum one time from Wal-mart is an example of what type of deviance?   Primary  
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Judging a culture based on its norms and values is called   Cultural Relativism  
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What is a stereotype?   A distorted, exaggerated, or oversimplified image applied to a category of people  
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Retribution   Approach to crime control that makes criminals pay for their crimes  
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Incarceration   Approach to crime control that keeps criminals off the street  
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What is groupthink?   going along with the group despite not agreeing with them  
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What happened in the Kitty Genovese incident?   A woman was murdered outside her apartment with many witnesses but no one called the police. Caused by the bystander effect--everyone thought someone else would help. The more people at a scene, the less likely people are to call for help.  
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Is there a difference between being deivant and being criminal?   Yes, being deviant just means not following the norms. Being criminal means breaking a norm that is also a law.  
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Why is crime an economic problem in the US?   It costs one million dollars to keep a person in jail for life. Crime costs the US more than 400 Billion dollars a year.  
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Why is crime a social problem in the US?   Need to discuss specific examples of how crime has impacted the people in "the Killing Fields of America".  
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