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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






2. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






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






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






5. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






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






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






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






9. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






10. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






11. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






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






13. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






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






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






16. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






17. The state of being related to others.






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






19. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






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






21. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






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






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






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






30. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






31. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






32. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






34. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






35. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






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






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






38. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






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






40. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






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






42. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






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






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






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






47. The incidence of death in a given population.






48. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






50. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.