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CLEP Sociology

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1. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






2. 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.






3. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






4. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






5. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






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






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






9. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






10. The scientific study of population.






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






12. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






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






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






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






16. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






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






19. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






20. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






21. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






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






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






24. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






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






33. 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.






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






35. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






42. 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.






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






44. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






45. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






47. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






48. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






49. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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