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CLEP Sociology

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






2. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






3. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






4. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






5. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






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






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






8. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






10. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






11. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






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






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






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






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






16. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






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






18. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






19. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






20. 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.






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






22. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






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






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






25. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






26. 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.






27. A two-member group.






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






29. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






30. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






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






33. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






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






36. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






37. 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.






38. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






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






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






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






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






43. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






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






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






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






47. Governmental social control.






48. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






49. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






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