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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






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






4. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






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






7. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






8. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






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






10. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






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






12. 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.






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






14. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






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






17. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






18. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






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






20. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






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






22. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






24. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






25. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






27. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






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






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






30. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






31. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






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






33. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






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






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






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






37. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






38. 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.






39. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






40. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






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






42. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






43. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






49. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






50. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.