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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






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






3. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






4. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






6. The sending of messages through the use of posture - facial expressions - and gestures.






7. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






8. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






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






10. 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.






11. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






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






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






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






15. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






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






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






18. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






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






20. 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.






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






22. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






24. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






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






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






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






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






38. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






39. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






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






41. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






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






43. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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






45. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






46. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






47. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






48. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






49. 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.






50. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.