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CLEP Sociology

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1. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






2. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






3. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






4. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






5. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






7. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






8. A two-member group.






9. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






10. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






11. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






12. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






13. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






14. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






15. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






16. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






17. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






18. 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.






19. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






20. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






21. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






22. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






23. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






24. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






25. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






26. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






27. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






28. 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.






29. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






30. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






31. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






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






33. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






34. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






35. Governmental social control.






36. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






37. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






38. 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.






39. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






40. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






41. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






42. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






43. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






44. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






45. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






46. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






47. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






48. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






49. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






50. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.