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CLEP Sociology

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






2. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






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






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






5. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






6. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






7. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






8. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






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






10. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






11. 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.






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






14. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






15. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






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






17. A three-member group.






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






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






20. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






21. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






22. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






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






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






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






27. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






28. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






29. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






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






31. 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.






32. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






33. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. The incidence of death in a given population.






39. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






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






41. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






42. 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.






43. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






44. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






45. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






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






48. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






49. The state of being related to others.






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






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