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Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a person has two or more competing roles






2. The individual and collective resources available to a person through his or her social networks






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






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






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






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






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






8. ID - Ego - super ego






9. Techniques to salvage a performance






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






11. When a person has two or more competing roles






12. The ability to choose which rules to enforce for whom and for when






13. 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')






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






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






16. Group decisions that are made without objective thought






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






18. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations






19. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment






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

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21. Authority based on custom






22. Virtual transitions between status






23. Means of communication designed to reach the general population






24. 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






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






26. Techniques to salvage a performance






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






28. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'






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






30. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation






31. 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






32. Preparing for future roles






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






34. In text book






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






36. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'






37. 1. Replacing members 2. Teaching recruits 3. Producing and distributing goods and services 4. Preserving order 5. Providing and maintaining a sense of purpose






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






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






40. What they actually did






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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

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47. Moving people form cities to the edge of the city.






48. 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')






49. A status that identifies us - is always relevant and affects other statuses.






50. Large movement of people from country to city