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






2. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






3. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






4. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






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






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






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






8. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






9. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






10. A two-member group.






11. 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.






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






13. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






14. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






15. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






16. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






17. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






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






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






20. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






21. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






22. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






23. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






24. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






25. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






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






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






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






30. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






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






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






33. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






35. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






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






37. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






38. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






39. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






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






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






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






44. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






45. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






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






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






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






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






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