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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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






3. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






4. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






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






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






7. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






8. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






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






15. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






16. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






17. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






18. 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.






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






20. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






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






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






23. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






24. 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.






25. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






26. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






27. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






28. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






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






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






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






32. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






33. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






34. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






35. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






36. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






38. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






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






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






41. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






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






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






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






45. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






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






47. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






48. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






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






50. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.