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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






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






10. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






11. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






12. The scientific study of population.






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






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






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






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






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






18. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






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






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






21. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






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






23. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






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






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






26. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






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






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






29. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






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






31. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






32. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






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






34. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






35. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






37. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






38. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






46. An economic system under which the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.






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






48. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






49. 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.






50. A study - generally in the form of interviews or questionnaires - that provides sociologists and other researchers with information concerning how people think and act.