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CLEP Sociology

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






2. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






3. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






4. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






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






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






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






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






9. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






10. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






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






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






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






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






15. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






16. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






17. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






18. 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.






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






20. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






26. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






27. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






28. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






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






30. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






31. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






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






33. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






35. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






36. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






37. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






39. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






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






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






42. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






43. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






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






45. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






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






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






50. 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.