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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.






2. Subjects in an experiment who are not introduced to the independent variable by the researcher.






3. A society in which women dominate in family decision making.






4. Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.






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






6. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status.






7. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences.






8. The ideology that one sex is superior to the other.






9. A three-member group.






10. General practices found in every culture.






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






12. Due to the stereotyping - this term has been abandoned by sociologists in favor of new religious movements.






13. The collection and distribution of information concerning events in the social environment.






14. A segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores - folkways - and values that differs from the pattern of the larger society.






15. The social institution through which goods and services are produced - distributed - and consumed.






16. An approach to urbanization that considers the interplay of local - national - and worldwide forces and their effect on local space - with special emphasis on the impact of global economic activity.






17. Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere.






18. A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist.






19. Families in which there is only one parent present to care for children.






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






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






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






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






24. The systematic - widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity such as factories and plants.






25. A theory of social change that holds that all societies pass through the same successive stages of evolution and inevitably reach the same end.






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






27. The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation.






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






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






30. A form of capitalism under which people compete freely - with minimal government intervention in the economy.






31. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






32. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs.






33. An approach to the study of formal organizations that views workers as being motivated almost entirely by economic rewards.






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






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






36. A principle of organizational life developed by Robert Michels under which even democratic organizations will become bureaucracies ruled by a few individuals.






37. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






38. Processes of socialization in which a person 'rehearses' for future positions - occupations - and social relationships.






39. Karl Marx's term for the capitalist class - comprising the owners of the means of production.






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






41. A factor held constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable.






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






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






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






45. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others and in which enslaved status is transferred from parents to children.






46. Mmanuel Wallerstein's view of the global economic system as divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.






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






48. In sociology - a set of statements that seeks to explain problems - actions - or behavior.






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






50. Questionnaires or interviews used to determine whether people have been victims of crime.