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CLEP Sociology

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1. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






2. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






3. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






4. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






5. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






6. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






7. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






8. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






9. The scientific study of population.






10. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






11. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






12. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






13. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






14. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






15. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






16. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






17. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






18. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






19. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






20. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






21. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






22. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






23. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






24. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






25. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






26. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






27. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






28. General practices found in every culture.






29. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






30. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






31. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






32. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






33. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






34. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






35. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






36. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






37. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






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39. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






40. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






41. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






42. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






43. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






44. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






45. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






46. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






47. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






48. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






49. Salaries and wages.






50. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.