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CLEP Sociology

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1. Governmental social control.






2. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






3. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






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






6. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






8. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






10. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






11. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






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






13. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






14. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






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






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






18. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






19. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






20. 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.






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






22. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






23. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






24. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






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






26. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






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






28. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






29. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






30. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






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






42. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






43. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






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






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






46. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






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






48. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






49. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






50. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.