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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






3. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






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






5. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






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






7. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






9. A term used by Max Weber to refer to a group of people who have a similar level of wealth and income.






10. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






12. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






13. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






14. The work of a group that regulates relations between various criminal enterprises involved in the smuggling and sale of drugs - prostitution - gambling - and other activities.






15. The most technologically advanced form of preindustrial society. Members are primarily engaged in the production of food but increase their crop yield through such innovations as the plow.






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






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






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






19. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






20. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






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






22. 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.






23. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






24. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






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






26. A term used by sociologists to describe the willing exchange among adults of widely desired - but illegal - goods and services.






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






28. 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.






29. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






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






31. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the father.






32. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






33. The former policy of the South African government designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites.






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






35. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






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






37. A sample for which every member of the entire population has the same chance of being selected.






38. The belief that the products - styles - or ideas of one's society are inferior to those that originate elsewhere.






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






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






41. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






42. Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.






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






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






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






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






47. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






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






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






50. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.