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CLEP Sociology

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






2. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






3. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






4. 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.






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






6. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






7. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






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






9. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






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






11. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






12. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






13. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






14. The state of being related to others.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






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






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






22. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






24. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






25. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






26. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






27. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






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






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






30. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






31. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






32. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






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






34. General practices found in every culture.






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






36. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






37. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






38. 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.






39. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






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






41. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






42. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






43. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






44. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






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






46. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






47. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






48. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






49. 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.






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







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