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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






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






3. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






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






5. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






6. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






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






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






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






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






11. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






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






13. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






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






15. 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.






16. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






18. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






19. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






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






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






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






23. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






24. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






25. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






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






27. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






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






30. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






31. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






32. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






33. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






34. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






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






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






37. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






38. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






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






40. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






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






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






44. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






45. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






46. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






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






49. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






50. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.