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






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






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






4. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






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






7. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






8. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






9. 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.






10. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






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






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






13. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






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






15. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






16. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






18. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






19. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






20. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






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






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






23. The incidence of death in a given population.






24. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






25. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






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






28. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






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






30. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






31. 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.






32. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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






34. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






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






36. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






37. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






38. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






39. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






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






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






42. 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.






43. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






45. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






46. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






47. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






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






49. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






50. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.