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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anti-Jewish prejudice.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






7. The extent to which a measure provides consistent results.






8. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






9. A sociological approach that generalizes about fundamental or everyday forms of social interaction.






10. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






11. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






13. In a legal sense - a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights - responsibilities - and privileges of parenthood to a new legal parent or parents.






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






15. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. Talcott Parsons's functionalist view of society as tending toward a state of stability or balance.






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






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






23. A view of social interaction - popularized by Erving Goffman - under which people are examined as if they were theatrical performers.






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






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






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






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






28. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






29. Mutual respect between the various groups in a society for one another's cultures - which allows minorities to express their own cultures without experiencing prejudice.






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






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






32. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






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






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






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






36. The worldwide integration of government policies - cultures - social movements - and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.






37. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






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






40. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






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






43. An artificially created situation that allows the researcher to manipulate variables.






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






45. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






46. A structured ranking of entire groups of people that perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in a society.






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






48. Reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.






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






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