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CLEP Sociology

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1. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






2. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






3. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






4. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






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






6. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






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






8. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






9. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






10. 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.






11. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






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






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






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






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






16. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






17. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






18. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






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






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






21. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






22. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






24. A two-member group.






25. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






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






27. 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.






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






29. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






30. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






31. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






32. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






34. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






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






43. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






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






45. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






46. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






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48. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






49. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






50. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.