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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






6. The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.






7. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






8. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






10. The number of deaths per 1 -000 population in a given year. Also known as the crude death rate.






11. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






12. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






13. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






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






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






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






17. Veblen's term for those people or groups who will suffer in the event of social change and who have a stake in maintaining the status quo.






18. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






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






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






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






22. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






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






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






25. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






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






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






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






29. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






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






31. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






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






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






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






35. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






37. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






38. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






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






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






42. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






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






44. 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.






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






46. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






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






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






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