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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






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






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






4. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






5. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






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






7. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






8. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






9. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






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






12. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






13. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






14. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






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






16. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






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






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






20. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






21. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






22. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






23. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






25. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






26. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






27. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






28. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






29. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






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






31. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






32. Governmental social control.






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






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






35. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






37. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






38. A three-member group.






39. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






40. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






41. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






43. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






44. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






45. The state of being related to others.






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






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






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






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






50. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.