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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






2. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






3. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






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






5. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






6. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






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






16. A three-member group.






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






18. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






19. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






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






21. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






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






23. 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.






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






25. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






28. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






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30. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






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






41. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






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






43. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






44. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






45. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






46. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






47. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






48. 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.






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






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