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Age set systems serve as mechanisms of social control because:
 
  a. they are associated with a belief that social deviance will cause one to suffer in the afterlife.
  b. only members of an individual's own age set have any authority over him.
  c. the members always spend a lot of time drinking together.
  d. individuals' initiations almost always include an intense period of training in the norms and values of thesociety.
 e. individuals are socially considered to be a corporate lineage group because they have been socialized as agroup since birth.

Question 2

The use of inborn, involuntary, and often unconscious powers to cause harm to other people is called:
 
  a. socialization.
  b. witchcraft.
  c. ordeals.
  d. sorcery.
  e. shamanism.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b



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