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CLEP Sociology

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1. Governmental social control.






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






3. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






5. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






6. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






7. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






8. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






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






10. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






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






12. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






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






14. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






15. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






16. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






17. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






19. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






20. 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.






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






22. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






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






24. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






25. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






26. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






27. The state of being related to others.






28. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






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






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






32. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






33. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






34. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






35. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






36. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






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






38. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






39. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






40. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






41. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






42. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






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






45. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






46. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






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






48. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






49. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






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