If a dying person's intentions regarding his or her own death remain unknown and then someone else takes action to end the person’s life in order to end the person’s suffering, and the person dies, this is an example of

Nonvoluntary euthunasia

Explanation: in non voluntary euthunasia, a third party that is another person decides the fate of the person. It involves a person other than the one on the sick bed gives a go ahead to taking the person's life. A case of a man who had an accident and was in a comma for a long time. The doctor believes that his chances of ever coming back is very slim. The wife of the man can choose to end the life of the man by taking him from the life support so as to enable the suffering of her husband. It is quite different from involuntary euthanasia. In non voluntary euthunasia, a patient is usually incapacitated or cannot make decisions and another party which is a third person makes the decision on behalf of the person. The person making the decision believea that the decision taken is what the patient wants.

absolute poverty the condition of having too little income to buy the necessities-- food, shelter, clothing, health care.

achieved status a social position (status) obtained through an individual's own talents and efforts.

affirmative action the requirement that employers make special efforts to recruits hire and promote qualified members of previously excluded groups including women and minorities.

aggregate a collection of unrelated people who do not know one another but who may occupy a common space--for example, a crowd of people crossing a city street.

agrarian societies societies in which large scale cultivation using plows and draft animals is the primary means of subsistence.

alienation the separation or estrangement of individuals from themselves and from others.

amalgamation the biological as well as cultural assimilation (merging) of racial or ethnic groups.

anomalies in science observations or problems that cannot be explained or solved in terms of a prevailing paradigm.

anomie a breakdown or confusion in the norms, values, and culture of a group or a society. a condition of relative normlessness.

anomie theory the theory suggesting that deviance and crime occur when there is an acute gap between cultural norms and goals and the socially structured opportunities for individuals to achieve those goals.

anticipatory socialization the process of taking on the attitudes values and behaviors of a status or role one expects to occupy in the future.

apartheid the recent policy of racial separation in south africa enforced by leg

explanation:

a small town is a good definition for new france in 1750. new france was the area colonized by france in north america. the area is nowadays the city of quebec in canada.