Jails and prisons, Military boot camps, and concentration camps are examples of total institutions. In these settings, people are stripped of their former selves—or depersonalized— through a degradation ceremony

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false


True

Sociology

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A ________ marriage is based on practicality, not emotion

Fill in the blanks with correct word

Sociology

The 2001 bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were acts of ______ terrorism

a. transnational b. revolutionary c. domestic d. nationalist

Sociology

A group of retroviruses that infect and destroy helper T cells of the immune system, causing the marked reduction in their numbers that the diagnostic of AIDS, is known as the _______

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Sociology

Which recent event was reminiscent of Philip Zimbardo's mock prison experiment conducted in 1971?

A. the terrorist attacks of 9/11 B. the Abu Ghraib prison scandal C. the invasion of Kuwaiti jails D. None of the answers is true.

Sociology