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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A city with only a few thousand people living within its borders and characterized by a relatively closed class system and limited mobility.






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






3. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






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






5. The movement of an individual from one social position to another of the same rank.






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






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






8. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






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






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






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






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






13. A social ranking based primarily on economic position in which achieved characteristics can influence mobility.






14. Salaries and wages.






15. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






16. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






17. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






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






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






20. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






21. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






22. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






23. Governmental social control.






24. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






25. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






27. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






28. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






30. Organized collective activities that promote autonomy and self-determination as well as improvements in the quality of life.






31. A political philosophy promoted by many younger Blacks in the 1960s that supported the creation of Black-controlled political and economic institutions.






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






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






35. Rebellious craft workers in nineteenth-century England who destroyed new factory machinery as part of their resistance to the industrial revolution.






36. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






38. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






39. 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.






40. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






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






42. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






43. The study of various aspects of human society.






44. 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.






45. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






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






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






48. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






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






50. The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.