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Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Occupation within social structures or institutions






2. The ways in which individuals affect groups and the ways in which groups influence individuals






3. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)






4. Opportunities for crimes that are woven into the texture of life






5. Group decisions that are made without objective thought






6. The ability to get your way - even over the resistance of others






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






8. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival






9. The stages of our life from birth to death






10. When a society makes major changes to its social structure and how it relates to the environment






11. The legal - available opportunities and resources the society provides for success






12. Means of communication designed to reach the general population






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






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






15. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture






16. The view [developed by Howard Becker] that the labels people are given affect 1. The way others respond to that person [interaction] - and 2. their own self-concept [internalization] Thus channeling their behavior either into deviance or into conform






17. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival






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

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19. A prediction that causes itself to come true






20. What the culture raises up as what all members should strive to achieve or possess






21. A prediction that causes itself to come true






22. Illegal acts committed by affluent - 'respectable' individuals in the course of business activities

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






24. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations






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






26. People who share a physical location but do not have lasting (or any) social relationships






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






28. An individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them his or her own






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






30. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward






31. All the statuses






32. The web of relationships that joins a person to other people and groups






33. Leaving a role






34. A self concept based on our perceptions of how others may have judged us






35. Inmates released from prison to serve the rest of their sentence under supervision in the community






36. Effort to control others thought of us through self presentation and performance






37. The groups that you use to evaluate yourself






38. A physical or social attribute that devalues a person's identity and discredit a person's claim to a 'normal' identity






39. The framework (patterns) or society






40. Power that is illegitimate - that people do not accept as rightly exercised over them






41. Creates unity - maintains harmony (socio-emotional)






42. 'audience' ignores flawed performances






43. ID - Ego - super ego






44. A) The elite group members make up the laws b) The elite group members structure society so that they have more opportunities than others c) Discretion benefits the elite in all parts of the criminal justice system d) The oppressed must organize to r






45. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent






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






47. A temporary public gathering of individuals who share a common focus; members might interact but will not remain in contact






48. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life






49. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships






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

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