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CLEP Sociology

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1. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






2. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






3. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






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






5. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






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






7. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






9. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






10. 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.






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






12. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






14. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






15. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






16. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






18. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






22. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






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






30. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






31. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






32. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






33. Another name for labeling theory.






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






35. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






36. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






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






38. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






39. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






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






42. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






43. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






44. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






45. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






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






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






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






50. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.