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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Governmental social control.






2. The use of two or more languages in particular settings - such as workplaces or educational facilities - treating each language as equally legitimate.






3. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






4. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






5. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by law.






6. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






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






13. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






14. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






15. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






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






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






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






19. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






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






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






22. The incidence of death in a given population.






23. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






25. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






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






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






28. Use of a church - primarily Roman Catholicism - in a political effort to eliminate poverty - discrimination - and other forms of injustice evident in a secular society.






29. 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.






30. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






31. A set of people related by blood - marriage (or some other agreed-upon relationship) - or adoption who share the primary responsibility for reproduction and caring for members of society.






32. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






34. The process whereby people learn the attitudes - values - and actions appropriate for individuals as members of a particular culture.






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






36. An authority pattern in which the adult members of the family are regarded as equals.






37. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






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






39. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






40. The process of introducing new elements into a culture through either discovery or invention.






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






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






43. The state of being related to others.






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






45. Rituals marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another.






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






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






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






49. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






50. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.