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CLEP Sociology

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1. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






2. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






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






4. Salaries and wages.






5. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






6. The ways in which people respond to one another.






7. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






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






9. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






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






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






12. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






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






14. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






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






16. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






17. General practices found in every culture.






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






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






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






21. Another name for labeling theory.






22. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






23. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






24. 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.






25. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






26. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






28. 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.






29. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






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






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






32. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






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






35. Governmental social control.






36. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






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






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






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






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






41. The state of being related to others.






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






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






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






45. A three-member group.






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






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






48. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






49. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






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