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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






3. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






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






5. An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.






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






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






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






9. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






10. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






11. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






12. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






13. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






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






15. The state of being related to others.






16. 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.






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






18. The tendency of workers in a bureaucracy to become so specialized that they develop blind spots and fail to notice obvious problems.






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






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






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






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






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






24. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






25. Going along with one's peers - individuals of a person's own status - who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.






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






27. 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.






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






29. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






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






31. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






37. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






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






39. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






40. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






42. Another name for the classical theory of formal organizations.






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






44. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






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






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






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






48. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






49. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






50. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.