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CLEP Sociology

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1. 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.






2. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






4. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






5. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






6. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






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






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






9. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






10. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






11. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






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






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






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






16. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






17. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






18. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






20. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






21. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






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






23. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






24. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






25. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






27. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






28. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






29. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






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






31. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






32. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






33. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






34. 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.






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






36. Governmental social control.






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






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






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






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






41. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






42. Another name for labeling theory.






43. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






44. 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.






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






46. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






47. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






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






49. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






50. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.







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