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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






2. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






3. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






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






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






7. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






8. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






9. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






10. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






11. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






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






13. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






16. 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.






17. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






19. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






20. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






21. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






22. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






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






24. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






25. 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.






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






27. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






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






29. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






30. According to






31. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






32. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






33. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






35. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






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






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






38. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






39. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






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






41. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






42. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






43. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






44. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






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






46. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






47. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






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






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