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CLEP Sociology

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1. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






2. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






3. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






4. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






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






6. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






7. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






8. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






9. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






10. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






11. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






12. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






13. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






14. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






15. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






16. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






17. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






18. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






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






20. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






21. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






22. Control of a market by a single business firm.






23. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






24. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






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






26. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






27. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






28. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






29. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






30. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






31. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






32. A two-member group.






33. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






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






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






36. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






37. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






38. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






39. Salaries and wages.






40. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






41. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






42. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






43. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






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






45. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






46. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






47. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






48. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






49. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






50. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.