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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sense of virility - personal worth - and pride in one's maleness.






2. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






3. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






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






7. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






8. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






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






10. A two-member group.






11. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






12. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






13. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






14. Latino folk medicine using holistic health care and healing.






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






16. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






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






18. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






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






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






21. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






23. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






24. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






25. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






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






27. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






28. 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.






29. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






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






31. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






32. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






33. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






34. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






35. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






40. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






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






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






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






44. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






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






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






47. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






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






49. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






50. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.







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