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CLEP Sociology

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






8. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






9. 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.






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






11. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






12. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






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






14. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






15. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






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






17. The scientific study of population.






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






19. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






20. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






21. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






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






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






24. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






26. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






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






28. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






29. 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.






30. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






32. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






33. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






34. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






35. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






37. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






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






39. 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.






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






41. A two-member group.






42. 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.






43. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






44. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






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






46. 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.






47. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






48. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






49. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






50. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.







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