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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






2. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






3. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






4. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






5. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






6. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






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






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






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






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






11. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






12. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






13. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






14. 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.






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






16. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






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






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






19. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






20. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






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






22. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






23. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






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






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






26. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






27. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






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






29. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






30. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






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. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






46. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






47. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






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






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






50. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.