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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






2. A three-member group.






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






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






5. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






13. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






14. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






15. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






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






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






18. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






19. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






20. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






21. 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.






22. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






23. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






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






25. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






26. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






28. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






30. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






31. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






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






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






34. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






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






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






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






38. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






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






40. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






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






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






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






44. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






45. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






46. 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.






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






48. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






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






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