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CLEP Sociology

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






2. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






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






4. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






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






6. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






7. 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.






8. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






9. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






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






11. 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.






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






13. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






14. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






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






16. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






17. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






18. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






19. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






20. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






21. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






22. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






23. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






24. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






26. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






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






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






29. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






37. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






38. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






39. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






40. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






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






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






44. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






45. 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.






46. The incidence of death in a given population.






47. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






48. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






49. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






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







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