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CLEP Sociology

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






2. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






3. Governmental social control.






4. 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.






5. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






6. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






7. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






8. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






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






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






12. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






13. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






14. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






15. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






16. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






17. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






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






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






20. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






21. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






22. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






23. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






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






25. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






26. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






27. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






28. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






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






30. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






31. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






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






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






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






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






36. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






37. Salaries and wages.






38. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






39. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






40. 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.






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






42. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






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






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






45. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






47. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






49. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






50. 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.