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CLEP Sociology

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1. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






3. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






4. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






5. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






6. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






7. A three-member group.






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






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






10. 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.






11. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






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






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






14. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






15. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






16. Governmental social control.






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






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






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






20. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






21. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






22. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






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






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






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






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






27. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






28. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






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






33. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






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






35. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






36. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






42. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






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






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






45. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






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






48. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






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






50. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.







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