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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






2. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






3. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






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






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






6. Salaries and wages.






7. The ways in which people respond to one another.






8. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






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






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






11. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






12. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






13. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






14. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






15. 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.






16. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






17. A three-member group.






18. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






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






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






21. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






22. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






23. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






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






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






26. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






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






28. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






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






31. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






32. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






33. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






34. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






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






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






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






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






39. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






41. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






43. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






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






45. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






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






47. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






48. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






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






50. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.