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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






2. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






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






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






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






6. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






7. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






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






9. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






10. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






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






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






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






14. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






15. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






16. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






17. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






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






19. A three-member group.






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






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






22. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






23. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






24. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






25. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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






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






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






29. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






30. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






31. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






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






34. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






35. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






36. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






38. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






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






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






41. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






43. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






44. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






45. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






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






47. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






48. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






49. According to






50. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.