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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






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






3. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






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






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






7. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






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






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






10. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






11. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






13. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






14. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






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






16. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






17. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






18. 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.






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






20. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






21. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






22. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






23. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






24. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






25. The incidence of death in a given population.






26. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






27. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






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






29. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






30. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






31. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






32. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






33. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






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






35. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






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






37. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






38. A three-member group.






39. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






41. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






42. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






43. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






44. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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






46. 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.






47. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






48. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






50. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.