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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A two-member group.






2. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






3. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






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






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






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






7. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






9. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






10. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






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






12. General practices found in every culture.






13. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






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






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






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






17. 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.






18. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






19. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






20. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






21. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






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






23. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






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






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






26. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






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






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






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






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






31. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






32. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






33. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






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






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






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. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






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






39. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






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






41. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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






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






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






45. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






46. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






47. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






48. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






49. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






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