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CLEP Sociology

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






2. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






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






4. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






5. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






6. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






7. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






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






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






11. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






12. 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.






13. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






14. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






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






16. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






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






18. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






19. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






20. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






21. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






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






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






25. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






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






27. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






28. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






30. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






31. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






32. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






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






34. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






35. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






42. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






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






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






45. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






47. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






48. 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.






49. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






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






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