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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






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






3. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






4. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






5. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






6. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






7. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






8. Salaries and wages.






9. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






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






11. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






13. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






14. 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.






15. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






16. The incidence of death in a given population.






17. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






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






19. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






21. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






22. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






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






24. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






25. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






26. The state of being related to others.






27. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






28. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






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






30. General practices found in every culture.






31. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






32. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






33. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






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






41. 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.






42. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






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






44. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






45. 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.






46. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






47. Governmental social control.






48. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






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. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.