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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 requirement that people select mates outside certain groups.






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






3. Norms that generally have been written down and that specify strict rules for punishment of violators.






4. Crimes committed by affluent individuals or corporations in the course of their daily business activities.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to the child's awareness of the attitudes - viewpoints - and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior.






10. An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.






11. The early Japanese immigrants to the United States.






12. Salaries and wages.






13. The practice of living together as a male-female couple without marrying.






14. The exercise of power through a process of persuasion.






15. The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.






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






17. Norms deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.






18. A special type of bar chart that shows the distribution of the population by gender and age.






19. Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.






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






21. Organized collective activities to bring about or resist fundamental change in an existing group or society.






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






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






24. 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.






25. A term used by George Herbert Mead to refer to those individuals who are most important in the development of the self - such as parents - friends - and teachers.






26. A series of social relationships that links a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.






27. The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.






28. A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.






29. Fear of and prejudice against homosexuality.






30. The totality of learned - socially transmitted behavior.






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






32. The restriction of mate selection to people within the same group.






33. A systematic - organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.






34. A literal interpretation of the Bible regarding the creation of man and the universe used to argue that evolution should not be presented as established scientific fact.






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






36. A hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping cultures. It holds that language is culturally determined and serves to influence our mode of thought.






37. The average number of children born alive to a woman - assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. An element or a process of society that may disrupt a social system or lead to a decrease in stability.






44. An approach to deviance that emphasizes the role of culture in the creation of the deviant identity.






45. 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.






46. A preindustrial society in which people rely on whatever foods and fiber are readily available in order to live.






47. Someone who - through day-to-day personal contacts and communication - influences the opinions and discussions of others.






48. A floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a society - whatever their lifestyles - are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison with the nation as a whole.






49. The feeling of surprise and disorientation that is experienced when people witness cultural practices different from their own.






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