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CLEP Sociology

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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






5. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






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






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






8. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






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






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






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






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






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






14. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






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






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






17. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






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






19. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






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






23. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






24. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






25. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






26. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






27. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






28. A three-member group.






29. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






36. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






37. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






38. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






39. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






40. 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.






41. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






42. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






43. 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.






44. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






45. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






46. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






47. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






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






49. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






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