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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






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






3. 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.






4. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






5. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






6. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






7. 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.






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






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






10. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






11. A three-member group.






12. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






13. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






14. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






16. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






17. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






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






19. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






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






21. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






22. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






23. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






24. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






25. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






26. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






27. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






29. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






30. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






31. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






32. The scientific study of population.






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






34. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






40. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






41. Salaries and wages.






42. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.