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CLEP Sociology

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






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






8. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






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






10. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






11. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






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






13. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






14. 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.






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






16. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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






18. General practices found in every culture.






19. Salaries and wages.






20. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






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






25. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






26. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






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






29. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






30. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






31. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






32. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






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






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






35. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






36. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






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






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






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






40. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






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






42. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






43. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






44. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






45. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






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






47. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






48. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






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






50. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.







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