Choose ONE of these topics for the research:
- Discuss the various ways that certain reference groups can affect a person's behavior patterns, and how we may be influenced by a variety of reference groups during our lifetime. Give some examples to help your answer.
- Discuss how punishment for a deviant or minor criminal act could actually encourage a person to commit a more serious criminal act, and apply your rationale to discuss how the death penalty could actually encourage some to commit crime.
- Identify certain occupations that are gender specific. In which occupations are women more disadvantaged than men and in which occupations are men advantaged compared to women?
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