Socy 1000 Jim Tyler Final EXAM Questions AND Correct Answers
Acting crowd behavior - ✔✔emotions directed towards an event or goal (rock concert)
Activism - ✔✔any activity intended to bring about social change
Acute diseases - ✔✔diseases that have a sudden onset, may be really incapacitating, and are either
curable or fatal
Advanced industrial growth rates - ✔✔low birth rates and low death rates
aids - ✔✔acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a spectrum of disorders and symptoms resulting from
progressive breakdown of immune system
Alternative medicine - ✔✔a group of medical treatments, practices and products that are used instead
of conventional western medicine
Authoritarian regimes - ✔✔power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite who
govern without constitutional limits
Authority - ✔✔form of legitimate power that has widespread social approval, people submit because
they accept the power over them
Baby boomers - ✔✔age cohort born between 1945-1964
Bioethics - ✔✔the study of controversial moral or ethical issues related to scientific and medical
advancement
Blue-collar occupation - ✔✔an occupation that involves manual labor or factory work
,Bureaucratization and alienation - ✔✔disruption of the doctor-patient relationship. Even in the ER,
people leave before being seen due to long waiting periods
Capitalism - ✔✔system where the means of production are privately owned and goods and services are
distributed for profit
Casual crowd behavior - ✔✔a brief gathering that may share a common focus (car accident), but not
collective action
Censorship - ✔✔information is withheld or altered
Charismatic authority - ✔✔based on unique personal characteristics, people are drawn to the leaders'
personal qualities
Chronic diseases - ✔✔diseases that develop over a long period of time and may not be detected until
late in their progression, when symptoms occur
Civil rights - ✔✔free speech, press, assembly, etc. Equal justice under the law
Classical theory - ✔✔societies have a life cycle - birth, maturity, and death
Coercive power - ✔✔usually force someone to submit by force or threat of force
Cold war - ✔✔hostile nations seeking to destabilize and destroy each other without engaging in direct
armed combat. Arms race between US and USSR
Collective behavior - ✔✔relatively spontaneous and non-institutionalized responses by a large number
of people to uncertain and problematic situations
Collectivities - ✔✔large numbers of people who interact briefly and superficially in the absence of
clearly defined norms
, Complementary medicine - ✔✔a group of medical treatments, practices and products that can be used
in conjunction with conventional western medicine
Composition of a population - ✔✔the numbers and types of people, classified by characteristics such as
age, sex, race, and ethnicity
Consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSAs) - ✔✔the largest MSAs (containing over a million
people)
Conspicuous consumption - ✔✔consumers desire to express their social standing by acquiring goods
and services for the purpose of having, displaying, and consuming them
Consumption - ✔✔process of accumulating and using goods and services
Contagion theory - ✔✔people are susceptible to crowd emotion
Contemporary - ✔✔Oscillation (rise and decline) in culture of society
Conventional crowd behavior - ✔✔no collective action, but are routine and follow established norms
(audience in a theater)
Convergence theory - ✔✔mobs are composed of segments of the population who already share interest
and attitudes predisposing them to come together in violent and destructive ways
Corporate conglomerates - ✔✔produce multiple types of products (and services) under different trade
and brand names (ex: GE)
Corporate interlocks - ✔✔directors sit on more than one company's board, linking their economic,
management and political activities
Acting crowd behavior - ✔✔emotions directed towards an event or goal (rock concert)
Activism - ✔✔any activity intended to bring about social change
Acute diseases - ✔✔diseases that have a sudden onset, may be really incapacitating, and are either
curable or fatal
Advanced industrial growth rates - ✔✔low birth rates and low death rates
aids - ✔✔acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a spectrum of disorders and symptoms resulting from
progressive breakdown of immune system
Alternative medicine - ✔✔a group of medical treatments, practices and products that are used instead
of conventional western medicine
Authoritarian regimes - ✔✔power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite who
govern without constitutional limits
Authority - ✔✔form of legitimate power that has widespread social approval, people submit because
they accept the power over them
Baby boomers - ✔✔age cohort born between 1945-1964
Bioethics - ✔✔the study of controversial moral or ethical issues related to scientific and medical
advancement
Blue-collar occupation - ✔✔an occupation that involves manual labor or factory work
,Bureaucratization and alienation - ✔✔disruption of the doctor-patient relationship. Even in the ER,
people leave before being seen due to long waiting periods
Capitalism - ✔✔system where the means of production are privately owned and goods and services are
distributed for profit
Casual crowd behavior - ✔✔a brief gathering that may share a common focus (car accident), but not
collective action
Censorship - ✔✔information is withheld or altered
Charismatic authority - ✔✔based on unique personal characteristics, people are drawn to the leaders'
personal qualities
Chronic diseases - ✔✔diseases that develop over a long period of time and may not be detected until
late in their progression, when symptoms occur
Civil rights - ✔✔free speech, press, assembly, etc. Equal justice under the law
Classical theory - ✔✔societies have a life cycle - birth, maturity, and death
Coercive power - ✔✔usually force someone to submit by force or threat of force
Cold war - ✔✔hostile nations seeking to destabilize and destroy each other without engaging in direct
armed combat. Arms race between US and USSR
Collective behavior - ✔✔relatively spontaneous and non-institutionalized responses by a large number
of people to uncertain and problematic situations
Collectivities - ✔✔large numbers of people who interact briefly and superficially in the absence of
clearly defined norms
, Complementary medicine - ✔✔a group of medical treatments, practices and products that can be used
in conjunction with conventional western medicine
Composition of a population - ✔✔the numbers and types of people, classified by characteristics such as
age, sex, race, and ethnicity
Consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSAs) - ✔✔the largest MSAs (containing over a million
people)
Conspicuous consumption - ✔✔consumers desire to express their social standing by acquiring goods
and services for the purpose of having, displaying, and consuming them
Consumption - ✔✔process of accumulating and using goods and services
Contagion theory - ✔✔people are susceptible to crowd emotion
Contemporary - ✔✔Oscillation (rise and decline) in culture of society
Conventional crowd behavior - ✔✔no collective action, but are routine and follow established norms
(audience in a theater)
Convergence theory - ✔✔mobs are composed of segments of the population who already share interest
and attitudes predisposing them to come together in violent and destructive ways
Corporate conglomerates - ✔✔produce multiple types of products (and services) under different trade
and brand names (ex: GE)
Corporate interlocks - ✔✔directors sit on more than one company's board, linking their economic,
management and political activities
