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CLEP Sociology

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1. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






2. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






3. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






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






5. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






6. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






7. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






9. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






10. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






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






12. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






23. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






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






25. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






26. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






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






28. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






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






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






31. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






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






33. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






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






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






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






37. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






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






39. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






40. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






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






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






48. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






49. Another name for labeling theory.






50. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.