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CLEP Sociology

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1. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






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






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






4. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






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






6. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






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






8. 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.






9. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






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






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






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






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






14. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






15. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






16. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






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






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






20. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






22. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






24. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






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






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






33. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






34. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






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






41. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






42. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






43. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






44. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






45. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






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






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






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






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






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