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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






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






4. 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.






5. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.






6. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






7. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






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






9. Another name for labeling theory.






10. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






16. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






18. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






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






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






29. The state of being related to others.






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






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






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






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






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






35. A three-member group.






36. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






37. Governmental social control.






38. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






39. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






40. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






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






49. 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.






50. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.