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CLEP Sociology

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1. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






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






3. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






4. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






5. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






7. 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.






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






9. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






10. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






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






12. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






13. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






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






17. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






18. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






19. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






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






22. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






23. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






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






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






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






27. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






28. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






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






30. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






31. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






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






33. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






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






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






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






37. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






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






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






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






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






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






43. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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






45. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






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






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






48. 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.






49. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






50. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.







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