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






2. Process of replacing previous norms with new ones






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






4. 'audience' ignores flawed performances






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






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






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

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

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






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






11. The degree to which we will alter our attitudes and/or behaviors to fit into our perceived expectations of what is appropriate for our status or group






12. How self is developed in the three stages; imitation stage - play stage - game stage






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






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






15. The framework (patterns) or society






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






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






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






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






20. Relationships that cross social barriers






21. Means of communication designed to reach the general population






22. Based on pasturing of animals






23. A prediction that causes itself to come true






24. Committing crime after released from prison






25. Occupation within social structures or institutions






26. Material items that indicate one's status






27. Tonnie's term for the type of society characterized by weak family ties - competition - and impersonal social relationships






28. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation






29. Assumptions of people's personality






30. 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






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






32. The framework (patterns) or society






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






34. The violation of norms written into law






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

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






37. Status set that society sees as mismatched






38. A group of just two people






39. Based on information services and high technology






40. Someone who influences other people






41. All the statuses






42. All the statuses






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






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






45. Power that people consider legitimate - as rightly exercised over them






46. To much stuff






47. Leading by being highly permissive






48. A system of providing goods and services






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






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