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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






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3. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






5. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






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






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






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






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






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






14. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






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






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






17. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






18. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






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






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






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






22. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






23. Salaries and wages.






24. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






25. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






26. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






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






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






29. The variable in a causal relationship that is subject to the influence of another variable.






30. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






31. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






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






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






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






35. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






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






38. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






39. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






40. 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.






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






42. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






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






44. 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.






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






46. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






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






48. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






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