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Origins
Terms & Concepts I
Terms & Concepts II
State of Crime
Experiments/Studies
100
This is the scientific study of interactions and relations among humans.
What is sociology?
100
These are the general rules or guidelines that a society abides by.
What are norms?
100
A violation of the general rules or guidelines that a society abides by.
What is deviance?
100
This is the term for the repetition of crime, or people that commit a crime after being incarcerated.
What is recidivism?
100
This historical even influenced Stanley Milgram to conduct his well-known experiment.
What is the Holocaust?
200
This man was credited with “founding” sociology.
Who is Auguste Comte?
200
A hug or a smile is an example of this.
What is a positive sanction?
200
Extraordinary activities carried out by groups of people.
What is collective behavior?
200
The prison rate in Illinois has ________ since the early 1990s.
What is decreased?
200
This university was the home of Philip Zimbardo’s controversial prison experiment.
What is Stanford University?
300
This was one of the three events that led to the emergence of sociology. (Name 1)
What is Industrial Revolution, American or French Revolution, Imperialism?
300
Gossip or imprisonment is an example of this.
What is a negative sanction?
300
The tendency of people in a crowd to feel, think, and act in extraordinary ways.
What is collective mind?
300
The current prison population in Illinois is approximately: (a)4,000 (b)40,000 (c)400,000 (d)4,000,000
What is (b)40,000?
300
What percentage of the participants in the Milgram experiment shocked the learner to 450 volts (the full extent). Your answer should be within 10%.
What is 33%
400
Name one influential sociologist that did not found the study of sociology.
Who is Spencer, Marx, Durkeim, or Weber?
400
A group’s usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives.
What is social control?
400
Violent crowd behavior directed at people and property
What is a riot?
400
40% of individuals in prison in Illinois are there for these types of crimes.
What are drug-related crimes?
400
This term, keyed by James Stoner, describes the groupthink behavior that typically makes groups take more chance than individuals.
What is the “Risky Shift?”
500
It was during this century that sociology emerged.
What is the 1800s or 19th Century?
500
This is the phenomenon whereby individuals or groups assign “right” and “wrong” to internalized behaviors.
What is reification?
500
A story with an ironic twist that sounds realistic but is false.
What is an urban legend?
500
How much does the state of Illinois spend per year on each prisoner on average? You answer should be within $1,000.
What is $22,000?
500
The participants in the Asch experiment revealed the power of this.
What is conformity?