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






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






3. A person who pursues crime as a day-to-day occupation - developing skilled techniques and enjoying a certain degree of status among other criminals.






4. Jean Piaget's theory explaining how children's thought progresses through four stages.






5. Established standards of behavior maintained by a society.






6. The state of a population with a growth rate of zero - achieved when the number of births plus immigrants is equal to the number of deaths plus emigrants.






7. A negative attitude toward an entire category of people - such as a racial or ethnic minority.






8. The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.






9. An area of study concerned with the interrelationships between people and their spatial setting and physical environment.






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






11. The attempt to reach agreement with others concerning some objective.






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






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






14. An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions - in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.






15. Governmental social control.






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. An interactionist perspective that states that interracial contact between people of equal status in cooperative circumstances will reduce prejudice.






24. An approach to deviance that attempts to explain why certain people are viewed as deviants while others engaging in the same behavior are not.






25. Norms that generally are understood but are not precisely recorded.






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






27. The ways in which a social movement utilizes such resources as money - political influence - access to the media - and personnel.






28. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to concern for maintenance of harmony and the internal emotional affairs of the family.






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






30. The use or threat of violence against random or symbolic targets in pursuit of political aims.






31. The amount of reproduction among women of childbearing age.






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






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






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






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






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






37. The process by which a relatively small number of people control what material eventually reaches the audience.






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






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






40. An economic system in which the means of production are largely in private hands and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.






41. A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of a series of rings radiating from the central business district.






42. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth - prestige - or power.






43. Positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs - promotions - and educational opportunities.






44. A concept used by Charles Horton Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions with others.






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






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






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






48. A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups.






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






50. A religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect - yet remains isolated from society.