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CLEP Sociology

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1. The study of various aspects of human society.






2. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






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






4. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






6. 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.






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






8. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






9. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






15. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






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






22. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






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






25. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






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






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






28. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






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






30. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






31. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






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






33. 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.






34. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






35. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






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






37. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






38. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






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






40. General practices found in every culture.






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






42. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






44. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






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






46. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






47. 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.






48. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






49. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






50. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.