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CLEP Sociology

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






2. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






3. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






5. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






6. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






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






8. A three-member group.






9. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






10. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






11. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






12. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






13. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






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






16. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






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






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






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






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






21. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






22. 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.






23. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






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






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






26. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






27. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






28. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






29. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






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






31. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






33. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






34. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






35. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






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






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






38. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






44. 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.






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. 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.






47. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






48. A two-member group.






49. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






50. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.







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