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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A neighborbood that residents identify through defined community borders and through a perception that adjacent areas are geographically separate and socially different.






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






3. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






4. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






5. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






6. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






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






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






9. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






10. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






11. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






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






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






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






15. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






16. 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.






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






18. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






19. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






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






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






22. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






23. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






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






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 society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






28. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






29. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






30. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






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






32. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






33. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






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






35. A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.






36. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






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






38. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






39. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






41. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






42. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






43. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






44. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






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






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






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






48. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






49. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






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