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CLEP Sociology

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1. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






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






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






4. 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.






5. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






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






7. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






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






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






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






12. Governmental social control.






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






14. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






15. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






16. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






17. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






18. 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.






19. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






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






26. 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.






27. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






36. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






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






38. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






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






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






42. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






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






44. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






45. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






46. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






47. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






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






49. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






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







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