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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






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






4. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






6. 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.






7. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






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






9. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






10. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






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






12. The state of being related to others.






13. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






14. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






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






16. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






17. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






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






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






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






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






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






23. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






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






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






26. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






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






28. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






30. 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.






31. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






32. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






33. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






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






35. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






36. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






37. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






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






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






40. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






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






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






48. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






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






50. The incidence of diseases in a given population.