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CLEP Sociology

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1. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






2. The state of being related to others.






3. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






4. 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.






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






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






7. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






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






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






10. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






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






13. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






14. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






15. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






16. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






18. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






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






21. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






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






23. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






24. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






25. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






26. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






27. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






29. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






30. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






31. 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.






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






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






34. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






35. Control of a market by a single business firm.






36. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






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






38. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






39. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






40. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






42. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






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






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






45. A two-member group.






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






47. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






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






49. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






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