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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






2. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






3. 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.






4. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






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






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






7. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






8. 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.






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






10. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






11. 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.






12. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






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






14. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






15. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






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






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






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






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






27. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






28. A three-member group.






29. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






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






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






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






33. The state of being related to others.






34. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






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






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






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






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






40. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






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






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 two-member group.






45. 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.






46. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






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






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






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






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