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CLEP Sociology

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1. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






2. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






3. The scientific study of population.






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






5. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






6. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






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






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






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






11. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






13. The study of various aspects of human society.






14. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






15. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






25. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






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






27. 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.






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






29. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






30. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






31. 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.






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






33. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






34. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






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






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






37. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






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






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






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






41. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






42. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






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






45. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






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






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






48. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






49. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






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







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