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CLEP Sociology

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






2. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






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






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






5. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






6. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






8. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






9. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






11. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






12. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






13. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






14. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






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






16. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






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






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






19. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






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






21. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






23. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






24. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






25. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






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






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






28. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






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






30. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






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






32. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






33. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






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






35. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






37. Governmental social control.






38. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






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






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






41. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






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






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






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






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






47. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






48. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






49. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






50. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.







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