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Subject : humanities
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1. Informal culture taught in school in preparation for later in life






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






3. Based on large scale agriculture






4. Informational jobs






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






6. Committing crime after released from prison






7. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation






8. Dependent on hunting/gathering for survival






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






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






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






12. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance






13. Authority based on custom






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






15. To put yourself in someone else's shoes






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






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






18. Occupation within social structures or institutions






19. Based on pasturing of animals






20. Large movement of people from country to city






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






22. A group with three members






23. Discretely informing someone of a flawed performance






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






25. Status set that society sees as mismatched






26. 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')






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






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






29. The framework (patterns) or society






30. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward






31. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation






32. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations






33. Social positions earned or obtained






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






35. Virtual transitions between status






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






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






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






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






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






41. Status set that society sees as mismatched






42. In text book






43. The institutions and processes responsible for enforcing criminal law (e.g. police - courts and correctional system.






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






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






46. Relationships that cross social barriers






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






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






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






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







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