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CLEP Sociology

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






2. Governmental social control.






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






4. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






5. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






6. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






7. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






8. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






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






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






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






12. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






13. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






14. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






15. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






16. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






17. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






18. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






19. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






20. Salaries and wages.






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






22. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






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






24. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






25. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






26. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






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






29. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






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






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






32. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






33. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






34. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






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






36. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






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






38. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






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






40. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






41. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






42. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






43. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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