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CLEP Sociology

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1. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






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






4. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






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






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






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






8. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






16. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






17. 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.






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






19. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






20. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






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






22. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






24. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






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






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






27. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






28. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






29. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






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






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






32. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






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






34. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






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






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






37. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






38. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






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






40. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






41. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






42. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






43. 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.






44. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






45. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






47. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






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






49. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






50. 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.







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