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CLEP Sociology

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1. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






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






3. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






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






5. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






6. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






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






8. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






9. 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.






10. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






11. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






12. The scientific study of population.






13. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






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






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






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






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






18. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






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






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






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. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






23. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






25. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






26. 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.






27. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






28. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






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






30. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






31. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






32. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






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






34. 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.






35. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






36. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






45. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






46. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






47. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






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






50. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






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