Inmates entering prison are required to strip, shower, and wear assigned institutional clothing. They are searched, weighed, fingerprinted, photographed, and given no privacy even in showers and restrooms. This depersonalization process is referred to as a:

a. complete institution. b. resocialization ritual

c. rite of passage. d. degradation ceremony.


d

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Puerto Ricans, it has been found, provide ________ of the care their elderly or disabled family require

A) none B) most C) some D) all

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The people in this study can best be described as which of the following?

a. Educated, highly skilled, middle-class Americans. b. Steelworkers who were mostly recently laid off from their jobs. c. Professors, both men and women, who were out of work during times of recession and economic cutbacks in education. d. Low-skilled, new immigrant Americans who had little chance of getting a job.

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The total number of people who have ever lived throughout human history is probably about

a. 10 billion. b. 30 billion. c. 60 billion. d. 90 billion.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the key aspects of rationalization that Ritzer discusses?

A. efficiency B. predictability C. calculability D. uncertainty E. use of non-human technology

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