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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






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






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






4. The state of being related to others.






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






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






7. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






8. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






9. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






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






11. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






12. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






14. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






15. 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.






16. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






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






18. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






19. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






20. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






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






22. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






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






25. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






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






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






28. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






29. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






31. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






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






33. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






44. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






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






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






47. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






48. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






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






50. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.