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CLEP Sociology

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






2. The ways in which people respond to one another.






3. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






4. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






5. 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.






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






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






8. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






9. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






10. 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.






11. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






12. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






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






19. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






21. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






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






23. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






24. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






25. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






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






27. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






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






34. 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.






35. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






36. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






37. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






38. 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.






39. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






40. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






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






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






43. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






44. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






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






46. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






47. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






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






49. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






50. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.