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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






2. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






3. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






4. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






6. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






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






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






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






10. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






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






12. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






13. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






14. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






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






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






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






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






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






20. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






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






22. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






24. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






25. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






26. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






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






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






29. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






30. Salaries and wages.






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






32. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






33. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






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






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






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






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






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






39. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






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






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






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






44. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






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






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






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






48. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






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






50. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.