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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






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






3. 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.






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






5. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






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






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






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






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






10. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






11. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






12. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






13. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






14. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






15. 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.






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






17. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






18. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






19. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






20. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






21. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






22. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






23. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






24. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






25. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






26. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






27. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






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






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






30. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






31. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






32. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






34. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






35. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






36. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






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






38. According to






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






40. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






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






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






43. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






44. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






45. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






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






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






48. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






49. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






50. A two-member group.






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