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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






2. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






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






4. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






5. 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.






6. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






7. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






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






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






10. Salaries and wages.






11. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






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






14. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






15. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






16. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






17. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






18. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






19. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






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






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






22. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






23. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






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






25. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






26. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






27. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






28. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






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






30. The study of various aspects of human society.






31. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






32. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






33. A form of marriage in which an individual can have several husbands or wives simultaneously.






34. General practices found in every culture.






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






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






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






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






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






40. A temporary or permanent alliance geared toward a common goal.






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






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






43. Control of a market by a single business firm.






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






45. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






46. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






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






48. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






49. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






50. 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.