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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A society that depends on mechanization to produce its economic goods and services.






2. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






3. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






4. Commercial organizations that are headquartered in one country but do business throughout the world.






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6. A formal - impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding.






7. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






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






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






10. The act of physically separating two groups; often imposed on a minority group by a dominant group.






11. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






12. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






13. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






14. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






15. 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.






16. Standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.






17. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






18. 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.






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






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






21. Records of births - deaths - marriages - and divorces gathered through a registration system maintained by governmental units.






22. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






23. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






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






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






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






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






28. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






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






30. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






31. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.






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






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






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






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






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






37. A group that is set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.






38. 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.






39. The incidence of diseases in a given population.






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






41. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






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






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






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






45. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






46. A kinship system that favors the relatives of the mother.






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






48. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






49. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






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