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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






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






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






4. 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.






5. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






6. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






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. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






9. 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.






10. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






11. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






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






14. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






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






16. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






17. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






18. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






19. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






20. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






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






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






23. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






24. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






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






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






27. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






28. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






29. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






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






31. 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.






32. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






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






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






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






36. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






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






40. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






41. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






42. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






44. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






45. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






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






47. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






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






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






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