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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






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






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






5. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






7. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






8. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






10. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






11. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






12. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






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






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






15. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






16. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






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






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






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






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






21. A three-member group.






22. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






23. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






24. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






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






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






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






28. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






29. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






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






32. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






33. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






34. 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.






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






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






37. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






38. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






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






40. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






41. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






42. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






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






44. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






45. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






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






47. Salaries and wages.






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






49. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






50. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.