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CLEP Sociology

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1. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






2. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






3. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






4. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






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






6. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






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






8. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






9. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






12. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






13. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






14. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






15. 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.






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






17. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






18. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






19. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






20. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






21. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






22. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






23. 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.






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






25. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






26. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






28. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






29. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






30. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






31. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






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






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






34. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






35. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






36. The study of various aspects of human society.






37. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






38. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






39. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






40. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






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






42. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






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






44. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






45. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






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






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






48. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






49. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






50. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.







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