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CLEP Sociology

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






2. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






3. The study of various aspects of human society.






4. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






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






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






7. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






8. 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.






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






10. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






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






16. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






17. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






19. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






20. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






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






22. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






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






24. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






25. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






26. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






27. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






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






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






30. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






31. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






32. 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.






33. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






34. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






35. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






37. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






38. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






39. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






40. 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.






41. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






42. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






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






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






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






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






47. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






48. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






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






50. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.







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