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CLEP Sociology

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1. 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.






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






3. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






4. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






5. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






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






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






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






9. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






10. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






11. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






12. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






13. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






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






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






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






18. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






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






20. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






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






22. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






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






24. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






26. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






27. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






28. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






30. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






31. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






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






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






34. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






41. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






42. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






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






45. 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.






46. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






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






48. 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.






49. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






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