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CLEP Sociology

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1. 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.






2. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






3. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






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






5. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






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






7. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






8. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






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






10. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






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






12. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






18. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






19. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






20. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






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






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






23. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






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






25. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






31. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






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






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






34. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






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






36. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






37. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






38. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






39. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






40. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






41. 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.






42. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






43. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






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






45. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






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






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






48. 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.






49. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






50. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.







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