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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






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






3. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






5. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






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






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






8. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






14. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






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






16. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






17. 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.






18. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






19. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






20. 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.






21. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






22. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






23. The scientific study of population.






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






25. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






26. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






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






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






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






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






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






32. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






33. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






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






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






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






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






38. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






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






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






41. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






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






43. 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.






44. The number of live births per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude birthrate.






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






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






47. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






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






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






50. 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.