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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






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






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






4. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






5. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






6. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






7. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






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






9. The study of various aspects of human society.






10. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






11. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






17. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






19. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






20. 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.






21. Control of a market by a single business firm.






22. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






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






24. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






25. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






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






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






29. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






31. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






32. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






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






34. Governmental social control.






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






36. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






37. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






38. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






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






40. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






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






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






43. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






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






45. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






46. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






47. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






48. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






49. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






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