Midterm 2
Soc 201A
Study guide
Here is a list of items that you should know about or questions you should be able to answer.
Chapter 4. Social Interaction
1. Erving Goffman
2. civil inattention
3. nonverbal communication
4. impression management
5. social positions
6. social role
7. social context
8. focused interaction
9. unfocused interaction
10. encounters
11. audience segregation
12. Harold Garfinkel
13. ethnomethodology
14. background expectancies
15. conversation analysis
16. interactional vandalism
17. response cry
18. compulsion of proximity
19. percent of all adult Americans who use some kind of social networking site
20. Carol Brooks Gardner
21. Elijah Anderson
Chapter 6. Conformity, Deviance, and Crime
22. negative informal sanction
23. the sociological perspective on deviance
24. anomie
25. Émile Durkheim
26. Robert Merton
27. innovators
28. Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin
29. differential association theory
30. control theory
31. new criminology
32. labeling theory
33. secondary deviance
34. Uniform Crime Reports
35. The National Crime Victimization Survey
36. factors contributing to the decline of crime rates in the 1990s
37. Who are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of crime?
38. In 2011, what percentage of people in jail were men?
39. At what age is a person most likely to be arrested for a crime?
40. youth and crime
41. white-collar crime
42. corporate crime
43. Manuel Castells
44. countries that have the highest incarceration rates
45. factors related to high rates of violent crime
46. Americans’ beliefs about capital punishment
47. prisons
48. Devah Pager
49. Police work can be described as what?
50. broken windows theory
51. community policing
52. target hardening
53. shaming
54. In 1982, states spent $15 billion on corrections. In 2010, states spent how much?
55. Who is affected by the high cost of crime?
Social interaction (lecture notes)
56. social structure
57. social position
58. social role
59. Erving Goffman - cynical and sincere
60. Erving Goffman - style
61. Arlie Hochschild
62. positive informal sanction
Sociology of pride and shame (lecture notes)
63. two basic components of an emotion
64. Charles Horton Cooley
65. relationship between pride and shame and one’s ability to reason
66. From an evolutionary perspective, why do we feel shame?
67. John Hewitt
68. shame in American society
69. Thomas Scheff - pride and shame as indicators of the state of the social bond
70. Thomas Scheff – cause of conflict escalation
71. Thomas Scheff – alienation in the engulfed mode
Crime (lecture notes)
72. Referring to the study presented in the lecture, were blacks more likely to be stopped by police officers than whites?
73. Referring to the study presented in the lecture, were blacks more likely to be searched when stopped by police officers than whites?
74. Referring to the study presented in the lecture, when searched, did police officers find contraband more often among blacks than whites in most jurisdictions?
75. In 2014, an estimated 6,851,000 persons were under the supervision of U.S. adult correctional systems.
76. In 2014, there were 1,561,500 persons in prison and 744,600 persons in local jail.