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CLEP Sociology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An increase in the lowest level of education required to enter a field.






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






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






4. Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure.






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






6. A theory of deviance proposed by Edwin Sutherland that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts.






7. The conscious feeling of a negative discrepancy between legitimate expectations and present actualities.






8. A principle of organizational life - originated by Laurence J. Peter - according to which each individual within a hierarchy tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.






9. The state of being related to others.






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






11. The ordinary and commonplace elements of life - as distinguished from the sacred.






12. Employees who work fulltime or part-time at home rather than in an outside office and who are linked to their supervisors and colleagues through computer terminals - phone lines - and fax machines.






13. A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.






14. The degree to which a scale or measure truly reflects the phenomenon under study.






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






16. 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.






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






18. A large - organized religion not officially linked with the state or government.






19. A construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which specific cases can be evaluated.






20. The unintended influence that observers or experiments can have on their subjects.






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






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






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






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






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






26. A term used by Parsons and Bales to refer to emphasis on tasks - focus on more distant goals - and a concern for the external relationship between one's family and other social institutions.






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






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






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






30. A social structure that derives its existence from the social interactions through which people define and redefine its character.






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






32. A functionalist theory of aging introduced by Cumming and Henry that contends that society and the aging individual mutually sever many of their relationships.






33. Max Weber's term for objectivity of sociologists in the interpretation of data.






34. The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank.






35. 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.






36. The respect and admiration that an occupation holds in a society.






37. A theory of social change that holds that change can occur in several ways and does not inevitably lead in the same direction.






38. The physical or technological aspects of our daily lives.






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






40. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behavior.






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






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






43. Subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher.






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






45. A technique for measuring social class that assigns individuals to classes on the basis of criteria such as occupation - education - income - and place of residence.






46. A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.






47. A term used by Ferdinand Tonnies to describe close-knit communities - often found in rural areas - in which strong personal bonds unite members.






48. An abstract system of word meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture. It also includes gestures and other nonverbal communication.






49. An invisible barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified individual in a work environment because of the individual's gender - race - or ethnicity.






50. A group that - despite past prejudice and discrimination - succeeds economically - socially - and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites.