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CLEP Sociology

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






2. 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.






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






4. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






5. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






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






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






8. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






9. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






10. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






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






12. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






13. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






14. 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.






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






16. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






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






18. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






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






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






21. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






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






23. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






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






25. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






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






27. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






28. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






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






30. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






31. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






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






33. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






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






35. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






36. A three-member group.






37. 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.






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






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






40. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






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






42. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






43. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






45. 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.






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






47. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






50. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.







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