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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. General practices found in every culture.






2. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






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






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






5. 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.






6. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






7. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






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






9. Governmental social control.






10. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






11. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






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






13. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






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






15. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






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






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






18. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






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






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






21. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






22. 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.






23. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






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






26. 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.






27. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






28. 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.






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






30. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






31. 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.






32. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






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






34. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






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






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






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






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






39. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






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






41. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






42. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






43. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






44. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






45. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






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






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






48. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






49. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






50. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.