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Subject : humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The people who join together to reach a goal






2. Leading by trying to reach consensus






3. 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






4. When norms are weak - conflicting or absent






5. The stages of our life from birth to death






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






7. Leading by giving orders






8. Process that teaches culture to group members






9. Crime committed on behalf of legal organizations






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






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






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






13. Groups that we identify with and feel loyalty toward






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






15. We learn deviance from social ties with a deviant group or subculture






16. Occupation within social structures or institutions






17. To put yourself in someone else's shoes






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






19. Retribution - Deterrence - Incapacitation - Rehabilitation






20. A prediction that causes itself to come true






21. All the statuses






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

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23. Persons influencing each others behavior






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






25. Means of communication designed to reach the general population






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






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






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






29. Based on large scale agriculture






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






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






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






33. Means of communication designed to reach the general population






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






35. The goal of a leader within a group






36. 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






37. Someone who influences other people






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






39. Material items that indicate one's status






40. The people who join together to reach a goal






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






42. Any violation of rules or norms






43. Persons influencing each others behavior






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






45. A group with three members






46. Based on information services and high technology






47. What the audience sees






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






49. Change in technology that leads to societal transformation






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