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CLEP Sociology

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1. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






2. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






4. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






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






6. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






7. 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.






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






9. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






10. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






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






12. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






14. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






16. A two-member group.






17. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






25. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






26. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






27. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






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






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






30. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






31. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






32. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






33. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






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






36. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






37. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






38. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






39. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






40. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






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






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






43. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






44. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






45. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






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






47. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






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






49. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






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







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