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






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






3. Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.






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






5. Changes in a person's social position within his or her adult life.






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






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






8. Practices required or expected of members of a faith.






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






10. Any group that individuals use as a standard in evaluating themselves and their own behavior.






11. Pride in the extended family - expressed through the maintenance of close ties and strong obligations to kinfolk.






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






13. Governmental social control.






14. The maintenance of political - social - economic - and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time.






15. Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.






16. 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.






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






18. Difficulties that result from the differing demands and expectations associated with the same social position.






19. Japanese born in the United States who were descendants of the Issei.






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






21. The process by which individuals acquire political attitudes and develop patterns of political behavior.






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. The gestures - objects - and language that form the basis of human communication.






27. A view of society as ruled by a small group of individuals who share a common set of political and economic interests.






28. A fairly large number of people who live in the same territory - are relatively independent of people outside it - and participate in a common culture.






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Long-term poor people who lack training and skills.






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






38. Transfers of money - goods - or services that are not reported to the government.






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






40. A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.






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






42. A special-purpose group designed and structured for maximum efficiency.






43. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






44. A variety of research techniques that make use of publicly accessible information and data.






45. An area of study that focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment.






46. Social control carried out by authorized agents - such as police officers - judges - school administrators - and employers.






47. A religious organization that claims to include most or all of the members of a society and is recognized as the national or official religion.






48. A term used by Erving Goffman to refer to the efforts of people to maintain the proper image and avoid embarrassment in public.






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






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