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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






2. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






3. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






4. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






5. The scientific study of population.






6. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






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






8. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






9. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






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






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






12. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






21. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






22. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






23. General practices found in every culture.






24. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






25. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. Distinctive patterns of social behavior evident among city residents.






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. Governmental social control.






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






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






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






39. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






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






41. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






43. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






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






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






47. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






48. 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.






49. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






50. 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.