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A. What are the similarities and differences between subcultures and counterculture? Provide examples of each.

B. Define cultural diffusion and cultural leveling, providing an explanation of how they are similar as well as different. --Answer below:

C. What is "resocialization?" What purpose does resocialization serve in "total institutions"?

D. Define the concept agents of socialization. Identify what you feel are the three most significant agents of socialization in U.S. society today and briefly describe the role of each in the socialization process.

E. Define master status. Why does master status change not only through life, but from one environmental situation to another?

F. Describe the essential difference between role strain and role conflict. Illustrate this difference with an example of each and explain why it qualifies as being either role strain or role conflict.

G. What is the "electronic community"? How has it changed group interaction since becoming popular?

H. In the U.S. we have four different "social distance zones." List the zones and the distance associated with them, and identify what we expect to occur in each space.

I. What are the characteristics of the bureaucracy? How do bureaucracies create both a positive and negative impact upon members of society?

J. What was the Asch experiment? What were its results?