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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. The systematic coding and objective recording of data - guided by some rationale.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. The reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation.






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






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






12. Any group or category to which people feel they belong.






13. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






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






16. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






17. The scientific study of the sociological and psychological aspects of aging and the problems of the aged.






18. Salaries and wages.






19. 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.






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






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






22. A selection from a larger population that is statistically representative of that population.






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






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






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






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






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






28. The average number of years a person can be expected to live under current mortality conditions.






29. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






30. According to George Herbert Mead - the sum total of people's conscious perceptions of their own identity as distinct from others.






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






32. The systematic study of social behavior and human groups.






33. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1 -000 live births in a given year.






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






35. Open - stated - and conscious functions.






36. The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships.






37. A three-member group.






38. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






39. A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables.






40. A view of society in which many competing groups within the community have access to governmental officials so that no single group is dominant.






41. The difference between births and deaths - plus the difference between immigrants and emigrants - per 1 -000 population.






42. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






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






44. A term used by Bowles and Gintis to refer to the tendency of schools to promote the values expected of individuals in each social class and to prepare students for the types of jobs typically held by members of their class.






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






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






47. Cultural adjustments to material conditions - such as customs - beliefs - patterns of communication - and ways of using material objects.






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






49. A view of conformity and deviance that suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.






50. 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.