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Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Committing crime after released from prison






2. The framework (patterns) or society






3. Where all things are equal. (rights - beliefs ect.)






4. What all humans share that makes us distinct form other species and does not derive from our social environment.






5. 1. stability increases 2. intimacy decreases - 3. formality increases - 4. smaller subgroups form - 5. responsibility is diffused






6. Hunting an gathering society - pastoral society - horticultural society - agrarian society - industrial society - post-industrial society






7. A prediction that causes itself to come true






8. Understand and recognize Stanley Milgram's Teacher-Learner experiment


9. Two or more people who interact with one another and identify with one another






10. (Merton's) Strain Theory - Conflict theory - Differential Association - Labeling Theory






11. Crimes more commonly committed by lower class people on the streets of their communities






12. A group's usual and customary social arrangements - on which its members depend and on which they base their lives






13. A place where we can reveal our true feelings - beliefs and rehearsal or performances






14. Based on large scale agriculture






15. All the statuses






16. The alignment of some members of a group against others






17. Guides group towards reaching goals (task-oriented)






18. An isolated act of deviance: deviance is not part of one's lifestyle or self-image






19. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female






20. The people who are emotionally close and know each other well






21. To much stuff






22. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.






23. Social unity based on consensus of values and norms or conformity - and dependence on traditional family






24. People who share a similar attribute or characteristic [variable] but do not necessarily interact with one another






25. Any violation of rules or norms






26. Preparing for future roles






27. Process that teaches culture to group members






28. When a person has two or more competing roles






29. The behaviors - obligations - and privileges attached to specific status






30. Domestic revolution (plants and animal) - agricultural revolution (the plow) - industrial revolution (steam engine) - informational revolution (micro chips)






31. The important expectations of a particular person that a child wishes to please the generalized other - The expectations of a society taken into account when shaping their own behavior






32. Based on pasturing of animals






33. Material items that indicate one's status






34. A group of just two people






35. Groups toward which one feels opposition - rivalry or hostility toward






36. Persons influencing each others behavior






37. A cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact primarily with one another






38. Authority based on law or written rules and regulations; also called bureaucratic authority






39. Efforts to manage behavior to create a publicly observable and appropriate display of emotion (self control)






40. Re-socializing a criminal so that he or she no longer wants to do crime - but can live a non-criminal life ('Go and sin no more')






41. The social mechanisms that regulate a person's actions






42. You choose to have a government to constrain disruptive individual choices - for an orderly society and benefits provided






43. Groups' expectations for the norms of boys vs. girls






44. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation






45. The alignment of some members of a group against others






46. A form of retribution by which offenders compensate their victims with money or labor






47. Preventing an act by producing fear of the consequences of the act ('crime does not pay')






48. The sense of solidarity or loyalty that individuals feel toward a group to which they belong






49. Also called 'societal protection' protecting the public by preventing a criminal from doing a crime again either through imprisonment or execution






50. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers