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Subject : humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Social positions earned or obtained






2. Leading by trying to reach consensus






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






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






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






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






7. Virtual transitions between status






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






9. Large movement of people from country to city






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






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






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






13. Relationships that provide support and social cohesion






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






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






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

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17. Difficulties tying to fulfill the expectations of a role






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






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






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






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






22. People who are roughly the same age and interests






23. Life through drama or stage 'eyes'






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






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






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






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






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






29. Process that teaches culture to group members






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






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






32. In text book






33. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward






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






35. In text book






36. Relationships that do not provide much support or social cohesion






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






38. Organized pattern of beliefs and behaviors centered on basic social needs






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






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






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






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






43. Virtual transitions between status






44. A group with three members






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






46. Ways in which people express their leadership






47. Based on information services and high technology






48. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation






49. Conformity to establish or maintain a relationship with a person or group






50. Deviance becomes part of one's lifestyle or self-image because the person accepts the label of 'deviant'