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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Expectations regarding the proper behavior - attitudes - and activities of males and females.






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. A form of polygamy in which a husband can have several wives at the same time.






8. A three-member group.






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






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






11. The process by which a cultural item is spread from group to group or society to society.






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






13. Overzealous conformity to official regulations within a bureaucracy.






14. Unreliable generalizations about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group.






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






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






17. Organizations established on the basis of common interest - whose members volunteer or even pay to participate.






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






19. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






20. 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.






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






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






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. As defined by the World Health Organization - a state of complete physical - mental - and social well-being - and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.






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






27. A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions.






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






29. A set of cultural beliefs and practices that helps to maintain powerful social - economic - and political interests.






30. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






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






32. 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.






33. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






34. According to the Census Bureau - any territory within a metropolitan area that is not included in the central city.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of conflict or tension between competing groups.






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






39. A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.






40. The total number of cases of a specific disorder that exist at a given time.






41. Failures that are inevitable - given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized.






42. The prohibition of sexual relationships between certain culturally specified relatives.






43. 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.






44. Elements beyond everyday life that inspire awe - respect - and even fear.






45. The state of being related to others.






46. The phenomenon whereby the media provide such massive amounts of information that the audience becomes numb and generally fails to act on the information - regardless of how compelling the issue.






47. The incidence of death in a given population.






48. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






49. A subculture that deliberately opposes certain aspects of the larger culture.






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







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