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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






2. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






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






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






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






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






7. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






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






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






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






11. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






12. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






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






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






15. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






16. 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.






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






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






19. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






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






21. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






22. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






24. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






25. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






26. Another name for labeling theory.






27. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






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






29. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






30. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






31. 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.






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






33. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






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






35. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






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






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






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






40. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






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






43. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






44. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






45. 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.






46. A three-member group.






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






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






49. 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.






50. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.