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CLEP Sociology

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1. 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.






2. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






3. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






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






5. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






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






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






9. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






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






11. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






12. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






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






14. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






15. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






17. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Another name for labeling theory.






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






26. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






27. 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.






28. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






29. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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






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






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






33. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






35. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






36. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






37. 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.






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






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






40. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






41. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






42. 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.






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






44. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






45. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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