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CLEP Sociology

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1. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






2. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






4. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






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






6. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






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






8. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






9. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






10. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






11. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






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






13. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






14. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






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






16. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






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






18. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






19. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






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






21. 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.






22. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






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






24. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






25. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






26. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






27. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






28. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






30. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






31. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






32. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






33. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






34. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






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






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






37. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






38. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






39. 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.






40. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






42. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






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






44. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






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






46. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






47. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






48. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






49. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






50. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.







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