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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






2. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






3. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






4. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






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






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






7. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






8. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






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






10. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






11. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






12. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






13. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






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






15. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






16. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






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






19. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






20. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






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






22. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






23. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






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






26. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






27. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






29. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






30. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






31. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






32. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






33. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






34. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






35. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






36. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






37. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






38. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






39. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






41. 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.






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






43. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






44. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






45. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






46. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






47. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






48. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






49. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






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