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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






4. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






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






6. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






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






8. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






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






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






11. 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.






12. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






13. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






14. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






16. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






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






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






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






20. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






21. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






22. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






23. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






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






25. Control of a market by a single business firm.






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






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






28. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






29. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






32. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






33. 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.






34. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






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






36. The study of various aspects of human society.






37. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






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






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






40. A three-member group.






41. The scientific study of population.






42. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






43. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






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






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






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






47. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






48. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






49. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






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