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Sociology test #2
What is a postindustrial society?
What is the class system?
Sociology test #2
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What is the class system?
A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved
A hereditary rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be mixed
A system of stratification under which peasants were required to work land
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What is a postindustrial society?
A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fibers
A society that depends on mechanization to produce its goods and services
a technology sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumers goods
A society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and
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What is intergenerational mobility?
Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s
changed in the social position of children relative to their parents
The movement of an individual from one social position to a different rank
The movement of an individual from one social position the same rank
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What is a hate crime?
illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware
A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation, developing skilled
The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises
A criminal offence committed because of the offender's bias against a race
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What is social structure?
A series of social relationships that link a person directly to others,
The ways in which people respond to one another
An organized collective activity to bring about/resist fundamental change
The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships
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What is informal social control?
Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police
Social control that is carried out casually by ordinary people through such
The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any
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What are laws?
Governmental social control
crime and deviance are caused by the absence or breakdown of communal
Difference in the way social control is exercised over different groups
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What is horizontal mobility?
changed in the social position of children relative to their parents
The movement of an individual from one social position to a different rank
The movement of an individual from one social position the same rank
Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s
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What is organized crime?
A criminal offence committed because of the offender's bias against a race
The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises
Crime that occurs across multiple national borders
illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware
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What is a postmodern society?
A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fibers
a technology sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumers goods
A society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and
A society that depends on mechanization to produce its goods and services
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What is social interaction?
The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships
An organized pattern of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs
A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position/status
The ways in which people respond to one another
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What is social inequality?
A condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth,
A hereditary rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be mixed
A system of stratification under which peasants were required to work land
A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved
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What is the estate system (feudalism)?
A hereditary rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be mixed
A system of stratification under which peasants were required to work land
A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved
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What is a professional criminal
?
illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware
A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation, developing skilled
A violation of criminal law for which some government authority applies
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What are social institutions?
A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person’s general
An organized pattern of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs
The ways in which people respond to one another
A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position/status
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Esteem is the respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society
False
True
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What is a group?
A formal, impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy/mutual
Any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who
A small group characterized by intimate, face-to-face association and
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Open system is a social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status
True
False
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What is a victimless crime?
The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises
illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware
A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults
Crime that occurs across multiple national borders
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What is cultural transmission?
the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material
The theory that crime and deviance are caused by the absence or breakdown
A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned
A common practice or belief found in every culture
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What is vertical mobility?
The movement of an individual from one social position to a different rank
changed in the social position of children relative to their parents
The movement of an individual from one social position the same rank
Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s
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Closed system is a social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual social mobility
True
False
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Prestige is the reputation that a specific person has earned within occupation
True
False
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What is social mobility?
Movement of individuals or groups from one position in a society’s
The movement of an individual from one social position the same rank
changed in the social position of children relative to their parents
The movement of an individual from one social position to a different rank
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What is an industrial society?
a technology sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumers goods
A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fibers
A society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and
A society that depends on mechanization to produce its goods and services
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What is capitalism?
The use of scarce resources, and nearly all other economic activities,
One where the WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM questions are primarily answered by
an economic system where private citizens own and use the factors of
an economic and political system in which the government owns some, but
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What is social control?
The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any
Social control that is carried out casually by ordinary people through such
Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police
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What is a transnational crime?
illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware
A violation of criminal law for which some government authority applies
The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises
Crime that occurs across multiple national borders
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What are castes?
A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved
A hereditary rank, usually religiously dictated, that tends to be mixed
A system of stratification under which peasants were required to work land
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What is social role?
The ways in which people respond to one another
A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position/status
A series of social relationships that link a person directly to others,
The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships
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What is a crime?
The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises
A violation of criminal law for which some government authority applies
A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation, developing skilled
A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults
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What is deviance?
Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a
The loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual
Going along with peers- individuals of our own status,
An adaptation of socially prescribed goals or of the means governing their
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What is a cybercrime?
A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation, developing skilled
The works of a group that regulates relations between criminal enterprises
A violation of criminal law for which some government authority applies
illegal activity primarily conducted through the use of computer hardware
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What is a hunting-and-gathering society?
a technology sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumers goods
A society whose economic system is engaged primarily in the processing and
A society that depends on mechanization to produce its goods and services
A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fibers
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What is formal social control?
The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any
Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police
Social control that is carried out casually by ordinary people through such
