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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






2. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






3. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






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






5. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






8. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






9. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






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






12. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






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






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






15. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






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






17. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






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






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






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






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






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






23. The incidence of death in a given population.






24. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






25. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






26. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






27. 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.






28. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






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






30. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






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






32. 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.






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






34. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






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






36. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






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






39. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






40. A two-member group.






41. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






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






43. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






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






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






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






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






48. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






49. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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