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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






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






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






4. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






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






6. The scientific study of population.






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






14. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






15. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






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






18. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






19. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






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






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






22. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






23. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






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






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






27. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






28. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






29. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






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






31. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






33. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






34. The study of various aspects of human society.






35. 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.






36. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






42. 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.






43. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






44. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






45. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






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






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






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






49. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






50. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.