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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. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






2. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






3. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






4. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






5. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






6. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






7. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






9. The state of being related to others.






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






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






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






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






14. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






15. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






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






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






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






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






21. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






26. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






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






28. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






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






30. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






31. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






32. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






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






34. 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.






35. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






37. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






38. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






39. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






40. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






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






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






43. Governmental social control.






44. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.






45. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






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






47. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






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






49. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






50. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.