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CLEP Sociology

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1. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






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






3. Another name for labeling theory.






4. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






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






6. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






7. 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.






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






9. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






10. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






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






12. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






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






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






16. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






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






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






19. A three-member group.






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21. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






22. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






23. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






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






25. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






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






27. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






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






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






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






31. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






32. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






33. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






34. The scientific study of population.






35. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






36. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






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






38. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






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






40. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






41. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






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






43. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






44. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






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






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






47. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






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






49. 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.






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