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CLEP Sociology

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Control of a market by a single business firm.






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






3. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






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






5. An inclusive term encompassing all of a person's material assets - including land and other types of property.






6. The process by which a person forsakes his or her own cultural tradition to become part of a different culture.






7. A face-to-face or telephone questioning of a respondent to obtain desired information.






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






9. Collective conceptions of what is considered good - desirable - and proper--or bad - undesirable - and improper--in a culture.






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






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






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






13. The combination of existing cultural items into a form that did not previously exist.






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






15. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






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






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






18. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






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






22. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






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






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






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






26. The notion that criminal victimization increases when there is a convergence of motivated offenders and suitable targets.






27. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






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






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






30. Max Weber's term for people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods - positive living conditions - and favorable life experiences.






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






32. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






35. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






36. A relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the other.






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






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






39. The study of various aspects of human society.






40. The number of new cases of a specific disorder occurring within a given population during a stated period of time.






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






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






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






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






45. Norms governing everyday social behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern.






46. A theory developed by Robert Merton that explains deviance as an adaptation either of socially prescribed goals or of the norms governing their attainment - or both.






47. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






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






49. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






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