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CLEP Sociology

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






2. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






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






4. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






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






19. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






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






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






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






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






24. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






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






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






27. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






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






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






30. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






31. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






32. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






33. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






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






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






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






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






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






39. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






40. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






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






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






45. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






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






47. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






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






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






50. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.