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CLEP Sociology

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






2. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






3. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






4. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






5. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






6. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






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






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






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






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






11. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






12. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






13. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






14. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






21. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






22. A three-member group.






23. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






24. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






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






26. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






27. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






28. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






29. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






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






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






32. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






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






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






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






36. Control of a market by a single business firm.






37. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






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






39. 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.






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






41. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






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






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






44. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






45. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






46. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






49. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






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







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