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CLEP Sociology

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






2. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






3. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






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






5. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






6. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






7. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






8. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






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






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






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






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






13. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






14. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






15. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






16. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






17. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






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






19. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






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






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






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






23. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






24. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






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






26. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






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






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






29. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






30. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






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






32. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






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






35. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






37. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






40. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






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






42. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






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






44. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






45. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






50. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.