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CLEP Sociology

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1. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






2. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






4. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






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






6. A two-member group.






7. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






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






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






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






11. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






12. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






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






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






15. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






17. General practices found in every culture.






18. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






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






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






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






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






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






24. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






25. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






27. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






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






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






30. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






31. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






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






33. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






35. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






36. 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.






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






38. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






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






40. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






41. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






42. 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.






43. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






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






46. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






48. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






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







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