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1. What is the term used to describe the situation where banks have policies of refusing to make loans for housing and businesses to persons residing in low-income or blighted communities?
2. Assignment of students to specific courses and educational programs based on their test scores - previous grades - or both is
3. The hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources is
4. A reference group is a group
5. The actual level of childbearing of an individual or a population is referred to as
6. The role of a health club or golf club as a meeting ground for people seeking new business contacts is an example of
7. The social institution that ensures the maintenance of society through the production - distribution - and consumption of goods and services is
8. According to Ferdinand Tönnies - Gemeinschaft refers to
9. Which of the following sociological perspectives views society as a system in which each part contributes to the survival of the entire system?
10. Which of the following BEST expresses the functionalist explanation of social inequality?
11. Which of the following categories of people has the highest net worth overall?
12. According to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
13. A negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of selected racial - ethnic - or other groups is referred to as
14. According to Robert Merton’s strain theory - what occurs when people accept society’s goals but adopt disapproved means for achieving them?
15. What do sociologists term a group that is advantaged and has superior resources and rights within a society?
16. Movements seeking to bring about a total change in society are referred to as
17. The respect or regard with which a person is regarded by others is
18. The extent to which a study or research instrument yields consistent results is
19. What is the name used for bar graphs divided into five-year age cohorts - with the left side depicting the number or percentage of males in each age bracket and the right side providing the same information for females?
20. Which of the following is Emile Durkheim’s term for those aspects of life that are extraordinary or supernatural?
21. An organized group that acts consciously to promote or resist change through collective action is
22. Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois?
23. Voluntary - often spontaneous activity that is engaged in by a large number of people and that typically violates dominant group norms and values is
24. The research method in which the goal is scientific objectivity and the focus is on numerical data is known as
25. A family unit that is composed of relatives in addition to parents and children who live in the same household is

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