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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






2. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






3. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






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






5. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






6. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






7. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






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






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






10. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






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






12. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






13. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






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






15. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






16. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






17. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






18. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






19. 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.






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






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






22. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






23. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






25. 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.






26. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






27. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






28. 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.






29. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






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






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






32. 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.






33. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






34. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






35. 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.






36. The scientific study of population.






37. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






46. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






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






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






49. A small group characterized by intimate - face-to-face association and cooperation.






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