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CLEP Sociology

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






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






3. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






4. 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.






5. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






6. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






7. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






8. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






9. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






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






16. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






17. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






18. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






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






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






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






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






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






24. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






25. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






26. 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.






27. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






28. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






29. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






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






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






32. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






33. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






34. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






35. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






36. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






38. 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.






39. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






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






43. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






44. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






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






46. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






47. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






48. Control of a market by a single business firm.






49. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






50. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.







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