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CLEP Sociology

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






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






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






4. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






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






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






7. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






8. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






9. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






10. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






11. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






12. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






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






15. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






16. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






18. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






19. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






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






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






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






23. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






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






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






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






27. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






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






29. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






30. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






32. Control of a market by a single business firm.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






36. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






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






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






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






40. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






41. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






42. The state of being related to others.






43. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






44. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






45. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






46. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






47. 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.






48. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






49. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






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







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