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






3. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






5. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






6. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






7. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






8. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






9. According to






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






11. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






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






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






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






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






17. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






18. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






19. 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.






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






21. Control of a market by a single business firm.






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






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






24. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






25. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






26. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






27. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






28. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






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






30. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






31. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






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






33. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






34. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






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






36. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






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






39. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






40. The scientific study of population.






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






42. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






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






44. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






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






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






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






48. Governmental social control.






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






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