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CLEP Sociology

Subjects : clep, humanities
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A relatively small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organization to renew what it views as the original vision of the faith.






2. The feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality - such as a divine being - or of being overcome with religious emotion.






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






4. A technologically sophisticated society that is preoccupied with consumer goods and media images.






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






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






7. The requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






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






9. A term used by Karl Marx to describe an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.






10. Control of a market by a single business firm.






11. The process by which a majority group and a minority group combine through intermarriage to form a new group.






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. In Harold D. Lasswell's words - 'who gets what - when - and how.'






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






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






22. Behavior that occurs when work benefits are made contingent on sexual favors (as a 'quid pro quo') or when touching - lewd comments - or appearance of pornographic material creates a 'hostile environment' in the workplace.






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






24. The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another - thereby enabling one to respond from that imagined viewpoint.






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






26. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






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






28. Information about how to use the material resources of the environment to satisfy human needs and desires.






29. A term coined by Robert N. Butler to refer to prejudice and discrimination against the elderly.






30. A married couple and their unmarried children living together.






31. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






32. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






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






34. A three-member group.






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






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






37. A term coined by Erving Goffman to refer to institutions that regulate all aspects of a person's life under a single authority - such as prisons - the military - mental hospitals - and convents.






38. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






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






40. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






42. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






44. The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.






45. An enumeration - or counting - of a population.






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






47. A school of criminology that argues that criminal behavior is learned through social interactions.






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






49. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






50. 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.