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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Significant alteration over time in behavior patterns and culture - including norms and values.






2. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






3. A kinship system in which both sides of a person's family are regarded as equally important.






4. An explanation of an abstract concept that is specific enough to allow a researcher to measure the concept.






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






6. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






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






9. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. The double burden--work outside the home followed by child care and housework--that many women face and few men share equitably.






15. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






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






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






18. Governmental social control.






19. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






20. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






21. A society in which men dominate family decision making.






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






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






24. 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.






25. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






26. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






27. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






28. Changes in the social position of children relative to their parents.






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






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






39. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






40. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






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






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






44. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.