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






2. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






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






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






5. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






6. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






7. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






8. 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.






9. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






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






11. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






12. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






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






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






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






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






17. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






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






20. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






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






22. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






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






24. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






25. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






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






27. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






28. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






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






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






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






32. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






33. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






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






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






36. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






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






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






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






40. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






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






42. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






43. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






45. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






46. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






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






48. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






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






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