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CLEP study guide definitions

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show A type of relationship formed on the basis of an accommodation of interests of on the basis of an agreement.  
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Audience   show
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Bureaucracy   show
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Causal Relationship   show
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show The basis organization of society.  
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Charismatic Authority   show
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show A group of people who have in common a certain relationship to the means of production.  
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Communal Relationship   show
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show View of society as being characterized by conflict and inequality.  
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Conflict Theory   show
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Contagion theory   show
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Content Analysis   show
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show A theory that individuals posses particular motivations.  
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show Values, beliefs, and lifestyles that do not conform to the norm.  
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show Collective behavior to have something because everyone else does.  
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show Social scientists efforts to be objective in their observations.  
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Deductive Theory   show
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Division of Labor   show
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Dyad   show
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Emergent norm Theory   show
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Endogamy   show
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Ethnocentrism   show
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show Marriage outside specific groups.  
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show The usual customs and conventions of everyday life.  
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show Ferdinand Tonnies. Small communities characterized by tradition  
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Gesellschaft   show
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Grand Theory   show
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Humanistic   show
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Independent variable   show
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Inductive theory   show
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In groups   show
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show Robert Bales. Classifying ongoing activity in small groups.  
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Interpretive Theory   show
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Iron Law of Oligarchy   show
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show Symbolic meaning or value to actual or imagined blood ties.  
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show A collective emotional response to tensions and anxiety in a group.  
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Master Status   show
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show Having one spouse at a time.  
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show When newlyweds live in a new or separate residence.  
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Out groups   show
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show Belief that in any bureaucratic organization "work expands to fill time available for it's completion."  
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Participant Observation   show
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Peter Principle   show
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Post industrial Societies   show
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show Behavior violating a norm  
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Primary Sector   show
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show The initial socialization a child receives that makes them part of society  
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show Profane.  
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show Research method that relies on personal observation to explain behavior.  
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Quantitive Method   show
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Rational legal Authority   show
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Resocialization   show
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Sociology   show
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show J.L. Moreno. Interaction in small groups.  
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