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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






2. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






3. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






4. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






5. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






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






7. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






8. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






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






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






11. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






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






13. The study of various aspects of human society.






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






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






16. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






17. 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.






18. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






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






20. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






21. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






22. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






23. 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.






24. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






25. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






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






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






29. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






30. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






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






33. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






35. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






36. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






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






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






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






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






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






42. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






43. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






44. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






45. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






46. 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.






47. Another name for labeling theory.






48. A three-member group.






49. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






50. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.