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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






8. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






10. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






11. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






12. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






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






14. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






15. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






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






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






18. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






19. Another name for labeling theory.






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






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






28. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






29. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






30. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






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






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






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






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






36. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






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






39. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






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






41. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






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






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






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






45. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






46. 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.






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






48. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






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






50. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.