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CLEP Sociology

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1. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






2. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






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






4. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






5. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






6. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






7. 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.






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






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






10. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






11. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






12. 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.






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






14. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






15. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






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






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






18. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






19. 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.






20. Another name for labeling theory.






21. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






24. A two-member group.






25. 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.






26. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






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






28. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






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






30. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






31. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






32. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






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






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






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






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






37. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






39. 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.






40. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






41. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






42. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






43. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






44. A three-member group.






45. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






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






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






48. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






49. 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.






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