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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






2. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






3. 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.






4. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






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






6. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






7. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






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






9. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






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






11. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






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






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






14. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






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






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






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






18. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






19. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






21. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






23. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






24. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






25. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






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






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






28. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






29. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






30. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






31. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






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






34. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






35. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






36. 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.






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






38. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






40. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






41. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






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






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






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






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






46. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






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






48. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






49. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






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