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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






3. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






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






5. 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.






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






7. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






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






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






10. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






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






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






13. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






14. According to






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






16. A three-member group.






17. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






18. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






19. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






20. 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.






21. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






22. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






23. 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.






24. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






26. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






27. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






28. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






29. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






30. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






37. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






38. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






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






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






42. The scientific study of population.






43. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






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






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






46. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






47. 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.






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






49. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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