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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






2. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






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






4. 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.






5. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






6. The incidence of death in a given population.






7. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






9. The viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture.






10. Difficulties that occur when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person.






11. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






13. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






14. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






15. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






16. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






17. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






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






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






20. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






21. The variable in a causal relationship that - when altered - causes or influences a change in a second variable.






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






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






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






25. Research that collects and reports data primarily in numerical form.






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






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






28. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






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






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






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






32. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






33. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






34. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






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






36. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






37. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






38. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






39. 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.






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






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






42. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






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






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






45. A city in which global finance and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy.






46. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






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. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






49. The state of being related to others.






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