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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






2. Control of a market by a single business firm.






3. 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.






4. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






5. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






6. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






7. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






8. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






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






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






11. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






13. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






14. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






15. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






16. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






17. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






18. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






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






20. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






21. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






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






23. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






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






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






26. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






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






28. The scientific study of population.






29. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






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






31. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






32. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






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






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






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






36. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






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






38. Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.






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






40. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






41. An approach to the study of formal organizations that emphasizes the role of people - communication - and participation within a bureaucracy and tends to focus on the informal structure of the organization.






42. Salaries and wages.






43. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






44. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






45. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






46. 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.






47. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






48. 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.






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






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