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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






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






3. Any number of people with similar norms - values - and expectations who interact with one another on a regular basis.






4. A society whose economic system is primarily engaged in the processing and control of information.






5. A spatial or political unit of social organization that gives people a sense of belonging - based either on shared residence in a particular place or on a common identity.






6. A theory of urban growth that views growth as emerging from many centers of development - each of which may reflect a particular urban need or activity.






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






8. A generally small - secretive religious group that represents either a new religion or a major innovation of an existing faith.






9. Salaries and wages.






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






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






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






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






14. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






15. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.






16. 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.






17. A term used by C. Wright Mills for a small group of military - industrial - and government leaders who control the fate of the United States.






18. 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.






19. The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.






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






21. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






22. 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.






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






24. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






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






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






27. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






28. The process by which a group - organization - or social movement becomes increasingly bureaucratic.






29. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






30. A city characterized by relatively large size - open competition - an open class system - and elaborate specialization in the manufacturing of goods.






31. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






32. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






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






34. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






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






36. The social institution that relies on a recognized set of procedures for implementing and achieving the goals of a group.






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






38. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society's stratification system to another.






39. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






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






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






42. Max Weber's term for the disciplined work ethic - this-worldly concerns - and rational orientation to life emphasized by John Calvin and his followers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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