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CLEP Sociology

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1. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






2. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






3. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






4. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






6. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






7. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






8. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






9. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






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






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






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






14. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






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






16. 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.






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






18. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






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






20. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






21. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






22. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






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






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






25. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






27. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






28. 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.






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






30. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






31. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






32. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






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






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






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






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






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






38. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






39. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






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






41. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






42. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






43. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






44. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






45. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






46. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






47. The scientific study of population.






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






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






50. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.