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CLEP Sociology

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1. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






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






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






4. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






5. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






6. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






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






9. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






10. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






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






12. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






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






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






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






17. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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.






22. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






23. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






24. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






25. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






26. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






27. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






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






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






30. Salaries and wages.






31. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






32. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






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






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






35. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






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






37. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






38. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






39. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






40. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






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






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






43. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






44. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






45. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






46. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






47. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






48. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






49. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






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