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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Leaving a role






2. Large movement of people from country to city






3. Informational jobs






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






5. Direct contact with clients - customers - patients or students by workers.






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






7. Persons influencing each others behavior






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






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






10. Assumptions of people's personality






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






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






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






14. The people who join together to reach a goal






15. Conformity to gain reward or avoid punishment






16. The way society sets children onto different courses in their way of life due to male/ female






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






18. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation






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






20. Persons influencing each others behavior






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






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


23. A type of economy where you live off the land






24. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations






25. The death penalty






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






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






28. Material items that indicate one's status






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






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






31. Process that teaches culture to group members






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






33. The violation of norms written into law






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






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






36. A system of providing goods and services






37. A prediction that causes itself to come true






38. The stages of our life from birth to death






39. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward






40. Relationships that are intimate - personal - caring and fulfilling






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






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






43. Incarceration - rehabilitation institutions (cut off from the rest of society to reform)






44. Using one's social networks for some form of gain






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






46. The goal of a leader within a group






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






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






49. Relationships that cross social barriers






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