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CLEP Sociology

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






3. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






4. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






5. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






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






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






8. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






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 hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






11. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






13. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






20. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






21. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






22. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






23. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






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






25. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






26. 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.






27. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






28. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






34. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






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






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






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






38. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






39. A two-member group.






40. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






41. 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.






42. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






43. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






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






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






46. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






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






48. 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.






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






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







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