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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






2. 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.






3. A sociological approach that emphasizes inequity in gender as central to all behavior and organization.






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






5. A form of marriage in which a person can have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only one spouse at a time.






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






7. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






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






9. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






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






12. The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.






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






14. The study of the distribution of disease - impairment - and general health status across a population.






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.






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






21. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






22. The incidence of death in a given population.






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






24. 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.






25. A form of polygamy in which a woman can have several husbands at the same time.






26. The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.






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






28. General practices found in every culture.






29. A group or category to which people feel they do not belong.






30. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






32. Penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm.






33. An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted.






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






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






36. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






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






38. 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.






39. A group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences.






40. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






41. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






42. Preindustrial societies in which people plant seeds and crops rather than subsist merely on available foods.






43. A sociological approach that emphasizes the way that parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.






44. A violation of criminal law for which formal penalties are applied by some governmental authority.






45. Numerous ways that people with access to the Internet can do business from their computers.






46. Salaries and wages.






47. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






49. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.






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