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CLEP Sociology

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






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






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






4. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






5. 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.






6. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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






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






9. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






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






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






12. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






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






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






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






16. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






17. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






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






19. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






20. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






21. 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.






22. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






23. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






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






25. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






27. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






28. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






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






31. The scientific study of population.






32. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






33. A three-member group.






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






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






36. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






37. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






38. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






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






40. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






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






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






43. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






44. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






45. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






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






47. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






48. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






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






50. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.