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






2. 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.






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






4. The ways in which people respond to one another.






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






6. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






7. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






8. The standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession.






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






10. A social system in which the position of each individual is influenced by his or her achieved status.






11. Social control carried out by people casually through such means as laughter - smiles - and ridicule.






12. A social position 'assigned' to a person by society without regard for the person's unique talents or characteristics.






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






14. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






15. Governmental social control.






16. The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of test scores and other criteria.






17. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. The process through which religion's influence on other social institutions diminishes.






23. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






24. Ogburn's term for a period of maladjustment during which the nonmaterial culture is still adapting to new material conditions.






25. The process of making known or sharing the existence of an aspect of reality.






26. The deliberate - systematic killing of an entire people or nation.






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






28. The ability to exercise one's will over others.






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






30. A printed research instrument employed to obtain desired information from a respondent.






31. 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.






32. The relationship between a condition or variable and a particular consequence - with one event leading to the other.






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






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






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






36. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






37. The belief that one race is supreme and all others are innately inferior.






38. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






39. Karl Marx's term for the working class in a capitalist society.






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






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






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






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






44. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






45. 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.






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






47. The German word for 'understanding' or 'insight'; used by Max Weber to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions - thoughts - beliefs - and attitudes.






48. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






49. Specialized language used by members of a group or subculture.






50. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.