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Subject : humanities
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1. Social groups - institutions - individuals that provide socialization situations






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






3. When a person has two or more competing roles






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






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






6. Leading by being highly permissive






7. 'audience' ignores flawed performances






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






9. Based on cultivating plants with hand tools






10. Replacing members - teaching recruits - producing industry goods and services - preserving order - maintaining a sense of purpose






11. Social norms about expressions - emotions - and acceptable - desirable feelings in any situation






12. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior






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






14. The stages of our life from birth to death






15. Preparing for future roles






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






17. People who are roughly the same age and interests






18. What they actually did






19. Unity based on specialized rules that society depend on one another






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






21. Occupation within social structures or institutions






22. To much stuff






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






24. When each person does less when there are more people involved






25. Impersonal relationships that involve only limited parts of one's personality






26. People who are roughly the same age and interests






27. Persons influencing each others behavior






28. Leading by being highly permissive






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






30. Based on harnessing machines powered by fuel






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






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






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

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






35. A system of providing goods and services






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

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






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






39. Society based on kinship - and intimate social relationships






40. The framework (patterns) or society






41. Exacting moral vengeance by inflicting suffering on an offender comparable to that caused by the offense ('An eye for an eye')






42. Convicted offender stays in the community with regular supervision and conditions of behavior






43. Techniques to salvage a performance






44. Creating specialization of subsystems and institutions within the social structure






45. 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')






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






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






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






49. Any violation of rules or norms






50. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment







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