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Final Exam
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2007

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What are the 5 types of crowds?
Definition

Casual Crowd

Conventional crowd

Expressive Crowd

Acting Crowd

Protest Crowd

Term
Conventional Crowd
Definition

results from deliberate planning

Term

Casual Crowd

Definition
loose collection of people who interact little if at all
Term
What are examples of conventional crowds?
Definition

College lectures

Celebrity funerals

Term

Expressive Crowd

Definition
Forms around an event with emotional appeal
Term
What is an example of an expressive crowd?
Definition

Religous revival

Nascar Races

Term
Acting Crowd
Definition
Motivated by an intense single minded purpose
Term
What is an example of an acting crowd?
Definition

Fleeing from a mall after gunshots are heard

Term
Protest Crowd
Definition
Boycott, Sit ins, Marches
Term
Mobs
Definition
Hoghly emotional crowd that pursues a violent or destructive goal
Term
What is a social movement?
Definition
Organized activity that encourages or discourages social change
Term
What is an example of social movement?
Definition
Civil rights = Racial Equality
Term
Why is collectivity hard to study?
Definition
b/c it is diverse, collective behavior is hard to explain and much collective behavior is transitory
Term
Matrilineal
Definition
Residential pattern where married couple lives with wifes family
Term
Patrilocal
Definition
residential pattern where a married couple lives with the husbands family
Term
Consanguine
Definition
shared blood
Term
Conjugal
Definition
nuclear family - based on family
Term
Family of Affinity
Definition
made-up of people who think themselves as a family an wish others to see them that way
Term
Extended
Definition
family consisting of parents and children as well as other kin
Term
Nuclear
Definition

a family composed of one or two parents and their children

Term
What religion was considered a cult by Roman Citizen?
Definition
Chirstianity
Term
Cult
Definition
Religous organization that is largely outside a societys cultural traditions
Term
Sect
Definition
a type of religous organization that stands a part from the larger society
Term
Denomination
Definition
A church independent of the state that recognizes religous pluralism
Term
Sacred
Definition
set apart as extraordinary inspiring awe and reverence
Term
Profane
Definition
 An ordinary element of everyday life
Term
Why do sociologists study religion?
Definition
b/c religious beliefs offer insight about the beliefs and functions of a society
Term
Who developed the Emergent-Norm Theory?
Definition

Ralph Turner

Lewis Killian

Term
Who developed the Contagion Theory?
Definition
Gustave Le Bon
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