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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






2. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






3. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






4. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






5. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






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






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






8. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






9. Governmental social control.






10. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






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






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






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






14. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






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






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






17. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






18. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






19. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






20. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






21. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






22. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






23. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






24. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






25. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






26. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






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






28. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






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






30. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






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






32. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






33. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






34. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






35. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






36. A two-member group.






37. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






38. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






39. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






40. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






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






42. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






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






44. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






45. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






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






47. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






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






49. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






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