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CLEP Sociology

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1. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






2. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






4. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






13. Governmental social control.






14. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






15. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






16. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






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






19. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






23. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






24. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






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






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






27. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






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






29. The state of being related to others.






30. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






31. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






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






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






34. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






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






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






38. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






39. 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.






40. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






41. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






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






43. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






44. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






45. 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.






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






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






48. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






49. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






50. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.