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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






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






4. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






5. 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.






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






7. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






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






10. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






11. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






12. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






13. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






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






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






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






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






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






19. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






20. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






21. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






22. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






23. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






24. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






25. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






26. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






27. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






28. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






29. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






30. 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.






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






32. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






33. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






34. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






35. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






36. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






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






38. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






39. Salaries and wages.






40. Two unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another's lives in a relationship of mutual caring - who reside together - and who agree to be jointly responsible for their dependents - basic living expenses - and other common necessities.






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






42. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






43. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






44. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






45. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.