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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






2. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






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






4. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






5. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






6. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






8. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






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






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






11. 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.






12. Organized workers who share either the same skill or the same employer.






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






14. 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.






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






16. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






17. 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.






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






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






20. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






21. Governmental social control.






22. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






24. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






25. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






26. Another name for labeling theory.






27. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






28. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






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






30. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






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






32. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






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






34. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






35. 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.






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






37. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






38. 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.






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






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






41. A family in which relatives--such as grandparents - aunts - or uncles--live in the same home as parents and their children.






42. 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.






43. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






44. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






45. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






46. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






47. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






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






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






50. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.