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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






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






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






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






6. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






16. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






17. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






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






19. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






21. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






23. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






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






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






26. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






27. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






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






29. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






30. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






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






32. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






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






34. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






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






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






37. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






38. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






39. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






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






43. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






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






45. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






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






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






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






49. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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