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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






2. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






3. 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.






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






5. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






6. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






7. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






8. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






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






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






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






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






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






14. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






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






16. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






24. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






25. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






26. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






27. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






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






29. 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.






30. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






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






32. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






33. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






34. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






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






36. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






38. The state of being related to others.






39. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






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






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






42. 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.






43. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






45. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






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






47. General practices found in every culture.






48. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






49. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






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






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