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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Control of a market by a single business firm.






2. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






3. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






4. General practices found in every culture.






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






6. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






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. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






10. A two-member group.






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






12. 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.






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






14. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






15. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






16. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






17. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






18. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






20. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






22. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






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. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






25. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






26. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






27. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






28. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






29. 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.






30. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






31. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






32. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






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






34. Governmental social control.






35. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






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






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






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






40. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






41. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






42. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






43. 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.






44. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






45. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






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






47. 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.






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






49. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






50. 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.