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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






3. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






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






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






6. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






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






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






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






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






11. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






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






13. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






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






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






16. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






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






18. 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.






19. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






20. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






21. 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.






22. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






23. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






24. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






25. 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.






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






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






28. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






29. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






30. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






31. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






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






33. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






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






35. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






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






38. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






39. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






40. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






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






48. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






49. 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.






50. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.