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CLEP Sociology

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






2. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






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






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






5. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






6. According to






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






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






9. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






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






11. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






12. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






13. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






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






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






16. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






17. 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.






18. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






19. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






20. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






21. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






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






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






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






25. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






26. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






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






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






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






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






31. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






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






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






34. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






35. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






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






37. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






38. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






39. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






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






41. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






42. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






43. 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.






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






45. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






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






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






48. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






49. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






50. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.







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