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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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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. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






2. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






3. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






4. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






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






6. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






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






9. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






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






11. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






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






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






15. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






16. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






17. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






19. 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.






20. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






21. 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.






22. A two-member group.






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






24. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






25. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe communities - often urban - that are large and impersonal with little commitment to the group or consensus on values.






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






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






28. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






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






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






32. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






33. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






34. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






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. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






37. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






38. The study of various aspects of human society.






39. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






40. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






41. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






42. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






43. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






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






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






46. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






47. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






48. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






49. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






50. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.