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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A legal strategy based on claims that racial minorities are subjected disproportionately to environmental hazards.






2. A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.






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






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






5. A theory of social change that holds that society is moving in a definite direction.






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






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






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






9. Unconscious or unintended functions; hidden purposes.






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






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






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






13. Print and electronic instruments of communication that carry messages to often widespread audiences.






14. In everyday speech - a person's typical patterns of attitudes - needs - characteristics - and behavior.






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






16. A social system in which there is little or no possibility of individual mobility.






17. A term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have the same prestige or lifestyle - independent of their class positions.






18. Max Weber's term for power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal to his or her followers.






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






20. 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.






21. A term used to describe the change from high birthrates and death rates to relatively low birthrates and death rates.






22. The process of disengagement from a role that is central to one's selfidentity and reestablishment of an identity in a new role.






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






24. Societal expectations about the attitudes and behavior of a person viewed as being ill.






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






26. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically.






27. 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.






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






29. In Karl Marx's view - a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and need for collective political action to bring about social change.






30. The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.






31. A Marxist theory that views racial subordination in the United States as a manifestation of the class system inherent in capitalism.






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






33. A form of marriage in which one woman and one man are married only to each other.






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






35. The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society - both in the United States and throughout the world.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Hereditary systems of rank - usually religiously dictated - that tend to be fixed and immobile.






39. 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.






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






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






42. A research technique in which an investigator collects information through direct participation in and/or observation of a group - tribe - or community.






43. Long term trend in human societies that results from the interplay of innovation - continuity - and selection.






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






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






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






47. The incidence of death in a given population.






48. A group small enough for all members to interact simultaneously - that is - to talk with one another or at least be acquainted.






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






50. 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.