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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






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






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






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






6. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






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






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






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






10. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






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






12. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






18. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






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






20. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






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. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






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






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






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






26. Research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data.






27. A two-member group.






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






29. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






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






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






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






33. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






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






35. 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.






36. A component of formal organization in which rules and hierarchical ranking are used to achieve efficiency.






37. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






39. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






40. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






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






42. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






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






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






45. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






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






48. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






49. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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