Discuss two specific ways that playing sports teaches and encourages people to follow the rules.

What will be an ideal response?


Athletes are rewarded when they accomplish their goals in acceptable ways. For example, athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs are sanctioned. Also, athletes who engage in "unsportsman"-like conduct are given a consequence.

Sociology

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Which form of marriage involves a group?

A. monogamy B. polygyny C. polyandry D. cenogamy

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Relative to men, women are expected to manage emotions on the job and to hold jobs where emotion work is essential. This expectation ties into the cultural belief that women

a. are more authentic about emotions. b. lose control of their emotions. c. have deeper emotions. d. are practiced at managing emotions.

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Who conducted a series of experiments on conformity through the use of the autokinetic effect?

a. Solomon Asch b. Albert Bandura c. Muzafer Sherif d. Leon Festinger

Sociology

If you punish a person seeking to change that person's behavior, it is called:

A. specific deterrence. B. incapacitation. C. universal deterrence. D. general deterrence.

Sociology